zipperheadhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zipperhead_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezipperhead, n.
First published 2007

zipperheadnoun

U.S. slang. derogatory.
  1. 1.
    1967–
    A stupid person; an idiot.
    1. 1967
      Maybe by then one of you zipperheads will be able to come up with something more constructive than excuses.
      Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-Times 27 July 6t/2
    2. 1975
      The network zipperheads wanted to play it as a turnabout farce, there obviously being nobody in ‘real life’ like this.
      New Yorker 26 May 33/3
    3. 1994
      You seem to interview about thirty people every day and they are all total zipper heads.
      J. Birmingham, He died with Felafel in his Hand (1997) i. 1
  2. 2.
    1967–
    offensive (originally Military). A person of East or Southeast Asian birth or descent, spec. a Vietnamese person, esp. a member of the North Vietnamese armed forces during the Vietnam War (1955–75). Cf. zip n.4
    1. 1967
      These little yellow, slant-eyed, rice propelled zipperheads, that I affectionately call ‘gooks’.
      Flashlight (Mansfield, Pennsylvania) 18 October 2/2
    2. 1991
      I would have found a way to get to Exeter where I would pour a bottle of acid all over their son's slanty-eyed zipperhead face.
      B. E. Ellis, American Psycho xi. 95
    3. 2000
      You..zipperhead, don't you watch the news? Communism is dead.
      P. Beatty, Tuff v. 61

zipperhead, n. was first published in March 2007.

zipperhead, n. was last modified in September 2024.