What is Bonehead?
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What traditional non-racist skinheads began to call scruffy glue-sniffing sleazeballs who pretended to be skinheads in the late 1970s. Now it specifically refers to neo-Nazi/white power skinhead imposters.
When I left the pub, a bonehead gave me a Hitler salute so I smacked him in the gob.
2.
Stupid, slow, stubborn.
Those boneheads on the road really work me up!
3.
1. What traditionalist skinheads call neo-nazi
2. One with low intelligance
"Oi, that skinhead has a swastika on his jacket."
"fuckin bonehead."
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4.
ridiculously simple.
seemingly idiot proof.
functioning at a Neanderthal level of complexity.
"it's a bonehead beat but it works."
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5.
A person who appears at the back of every photo and/or video, just randomly.
As seen on Chasers War On Everything.
Did you see Chas bonehead at the Logies? It was so cool! I would never have the guts to do that!
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6.
A person who acts like a fool in the background of a TV show being filmed, usually a news report.
The bonehead was jumping up and down and waving behind the news reporter doing a report
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The term first used by David Letterman.
To Bonehead is to perform an act like jumping up and down, talking on a cell phone and holding up a sign behind a live television show, usually behind a news reporter doing a newscast.
The bonehead was doing a funny sort of dance behind the news reporter for attention and for a few seconds of television stardom.
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