- without a head
- a headless body/corpse
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHeadless is used with these nouns:- corpse
- torso
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Idioms
See headless in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryrun around like a headless chicken
- to be very busy and active trying to do something, but not very organized, with the result that you do not succeedTopics Difficulty and failurec2
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