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What does egghead mean?

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Noun
  1. (pejorative) A bald person, especially a man.
  2. (pejorative) An intellectual.
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Nor can they portray him as a hapless egghead, as they did Mr Ignatieff's predecessor, Stéphane Dion, a former university professor. Mr Trudeau has a habit of making gaffes.
The New York Post calls him an effete egghead, but that doesn't quite capture it.
He hates egghead officers like Lieutenant Tommy Hart who haven't earned their stripes at the front.
There are egghead or intellectual firms, country-club or white-shoe firms, sporty or fratty companies, and gruff and scrappy corporations.
That's something that egghead liberals are supposed to be guilty of.
I was the egghead from academia who got in because the rules had changed.

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