deadneck

deadneck

One who is regarded as dumb or stupid. Did you see the guy on the dance floor wearing two different shoes? Man, what a deadneck.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

deadneck

n. a stupid person. Who’s the deadneck who painted the fence purple?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • dough head
  • dough-head
  • bonehead
  • dumb Dora
  • dumb cluck
  • dumbski
  • dumb-dodo
  • laugh all the way to the bank
  • be laughing all the way to the bank
  • (as) dumb as a box of rocks
References in periodicals archive
They are a bunch of stuffy deadnecks sitting in Switzerland who don't have the first idea about what's happening in the real world.