英语词汇deadhead的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

deadhead. A spectator who doesn’t pay at the theater or at sports events, or one who rides free in a train or other public conveyance. Formed from the noun deadhead, the verb to deadhead means to drive an empty train, truck, or the like, one with no passengers or freight, on a return trip to a terminal. Most authorities agree that the term derives from railroad use. Conductors on passenger trains possibly counted heads to be sure every early passenger had paid and deducted from their total passengers, or heads, those who had free passes—the first deadheads. The gardening term to deadhead, to pull off spent blooms, is unrelated to the above; in this case the dead blooms are the dead “heads.” In recent years the followers of the rock group The Grateful Dead were widely known as deadheads.

词汇	deadhead
词源	deadhead. A spectator who doesn’t pay at the theater or at sports events, or one who rides free in a train or other public conveyance. Formed from the noun deadhead, the verb to deadhead means to drive an empty train, truck, or the like, one with no passengers or freight, on a return trip to a terminal. Most authorities agree that the term derives from railroad use. Conductors on passenger trains possibly counted heads to be sure every early passenger had paid and deducted from their total passengers, or heads, those who had free passes—the first deadheads. The gardening term to deadhead, to pull off spent blooms, is unrelated to the above; in this case the dead blooms are the dead “heads.” In recent years the followers of the rock group The Grateful Dead were widely known as deadheads.
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