Definition of "shithead" []

• Vulgar Slang An inept, foolish, or contemptible person. (noun)

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• "“Gentlemen,” said Skinny, “I want the record to show I have never in my life been called a shithead, not since I was a young boy.”"
• "Reportedly, during a Senate Republican luncheon, when a colleague demanded an apology because McCain had called him a "shithead," McCain responded: "I apologize, but you're still a shithead.""
• "Although Lindh was seriously wounded, starving, freezing, and exhausted, U.S. soldiers blindfolded and handcuffed him naked, scrawled "shithead" across the blindfold, duct-taped him to a stretcher for days in an unheated and unlit shipping container, threatened him with death, and posed with him for pictures."