as in idiot
a stupid person
don't let that lunkhead anywhere near your work tools
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However, her lovable lunkhead of a servant, Kronk (Patrick Warburton), gives the emperor the wrong vial of poison and turns him into a llama.
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Devin Nealy, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
Their rowdy energy is so willfully disreputable, they must be made by a bunch of know-nothing lunkheads.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
Except an elderly Russian gangster recognizes the fiftysomething comic as the young American lunkhead (American Vandal‘s Jimmy Tatro) who stole his precious pocket watch all those years ago.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
For this week at the PGA championship, the same goes for every lunkhead who snapped a photo in the middle of a backswing, every 50-year-old who crowded out a kid in an autograph line, every scampering porta-potty seeker who incurred the wrath of an over-officious caddie.
—Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
The character was not a hothead but a himbo, a Presidential lunkhead.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
The walls are booklined: Charlie is no lunkhead but an avid reader.
—Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2021
The fun throughout, the payoff, is in seeing Beth yank the rug out from one misunderestimating lunkhead and authority figure after another.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2020
Devin Nealy, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
Their rowdy energy is so willfully disreputable, they must be made by a bunch of know-nothing lunkheads.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
Except an elderly Russian gangster recognizes the fiftysomething comic as the young American lunkhead (American Vandal‘s Jimmy Tatro) who stole his precious pocket watch all those years ago.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 June 2023
For this week at the PGA championship, the same goes for every lunkhead who snapped a photo in the middle of a backswing, every 50-year-old who crowded out a kid in an autograph line, every scampering porta-potty seeker who incurred the wrath of an over-officious caddie.
—Eddie Pells, Star Tribune, 6 Aug. 2020
The character was not a hothead but a himbo, a Presidential lunkhead.
—Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
The walls are booklined: Charlie is no lunkhead but an avid reader.
—Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2021
The fun throughout, the payoff, is in seeing Beth yank the rug out from one misunderestimating lunkhead and authority figure after another.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 2 Nov. 2020
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