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FLOODHEAD
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wall of water rushing ahead of the flood
Example:
we were lucky to be safe when the floodheads hit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("floodhead" is a kind of...):
flash flood; flashflood (a sudden local flood of great volume and short duration)