"like a whitehead" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more like a whitehead",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most like a whitehead",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "like a whitehead (comparative more like a whitehead, superlative most like a whitehead)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "like whiteheads"
        }
      ],
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, Roster and Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Encampment of the Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, pages 187–188",
          "text": "I told you a year ago that when the occasion required he ran at the enemy like a “Whitehead,” and I told you that like the rest of us, when occasion required, he ran the other way like a “Whitehead ;” but he was not like the King of France, who, with thirty thousand men marched up to the top of the hill, and then marched down again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, B.A. Botkin, Alvin F. Harlow, A Treasury of Railroad Folklore",
          "text": "Holy Smokes! I was scairt. Then the train hit a curve so fast I had to fight like a whitehead to keep her from pitchin' me out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of like whiteheads"
      ],
      "id": "en-like_a_whitehead-en-adv-UtUuguor",
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          "like whiteheads#English"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "like a whitehead"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more like a whitehead",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most like a whitehead",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "like a whitehead (comparative more like a whitehead, superlative most like a whitehead)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "like whiteheads"
        }
      ],
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        "English adverbs",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1893, Roster and Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Encampment of the Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, pages 187–188",
          "text": "I told you a year ago that when the occasion required he ran at the enemy like a “Whitehead,” and I told you that like the rest of us, when occasion required, he ran the other way like a “Whitehead ;” but he was not like the King of France, who, with thirty thousand men marched up to the top of the hill, and then marched down again.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, B.A. Botkin, Alvin F. Harlow, A Treasury of Railroad Folklore",
          "text": "Holy Smokes! I was scairt. Then the train hit a curve so fast I had to fight like a whitehead to keep her from pitchin' me out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of like whiteheads"
      ],
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          "like whiteheads",
          "like whiteheads#English"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "like a whitehead"
}