beheader
English
Etymology
behead + -er
Noun
beheader (plural beheaders)
- One who beheads or decapitates.
- 2009 August 19, Dwight Garner, “Fox Hunter, Party Animal, Leftist Warrior”, in New York Times:
- Mr. Hunt is so successful at the first goal that the big takeaway of “Marx’s General” may be that Engels, best known as a ruthless party tactician, comes across as the Mario Batali of international communism: a jovial man of outsize appetites who was referred to by his son-in-law as “the great beheader of Champagne bottles.”
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Synonyms
- decapitator
- headsman
Related terms
- behead
- header
- head
Translations
one who beheads or decapitates
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Anagrams
- beerhead