a head

Meaning

1. Editorial50% of films

   one physical head of a person or animal, including a severed head

2. Oxford11% of films

   for each person

   An American showman called Albert Koch was charging a shilling a head to have a look at it.

   The rest will be paid when the tally's finished at 21 $ a head.

In the movies · 28

• An American showman called Albert Koch was charging a shilling a head to have a look at it.David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive2014
• The rest will be paid when the tally's finished at 21 $ a head.Red River1948
• Maybe $17 a head?The Cowboys1972
• And a head start ExactlyAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania2023
• He was treated for a head injury.Fractured2019
• So there'd just be a head.The Lost City2022
• A head wound kind of bleed.Gone Girl2014
• She's got a head start.Scott Pilgrim vs. the World2010

From the same entry

• bang your heads together
• be banging, your head against a brick wall
• be head and shoulders above
• bite head off
• bring to a head
• bury your head in the sand
• can't make head nor tail of
• do head in
• do standing on your head
• from head to foot
• get your head down
• get your head round

More idioms

• by heart
• in a row
• be good news
• the other way round
• catch your breath
• stand in way
• come to the same thing
• come again
• mind you
• get away with murder
• be in a minority
• give the benefit of the doubt