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headwork

[hed-wurk] / ˈhɛdˌwɜrk /
NOUN
thinking cap
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A 4-4-1-1 looks likely, with Van der Vaart stealthily finding space to score – which last season was often created by Peter Crouch's headwork.

From The Guardian Aug. 12, 2011

Even plainsmen from Nola admired the headwork of the Viscianesi and came to lend a hand from time to time in supplying material for an orphanage for 200 children from three to seven.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan.

From Time Magazine Archive

They know he has made the least of the Government's departments into one of the three greatest, at the same time doing much of the headwork for the rest of the Cabinet during two administrations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Physical power was as yet on the side of Charity, but she hadn't a chance with him wherever headwork was wanted.

From Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes




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