be-headphoned

See also: beheadphoned

English

Alternative forms

• beheadphoned

Etymology

From be- +‎ headphone +‎ -ed.

Adjective

be-headphoned (not comparable)

1. Wearing headphones.

   Synonym: headphoned

   • 1968, Christopher Hodder-Williams, “Hands”, in Fistful of Digits, London: Coronet Books, published 1972, →ISBN, pages 125 and 173:

     She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was. […] There must be some perfectly simple explanation of the fact that twenty-eight be-headphoned zombies at Exeter University, plied as they were with computerized information on tape, knew the findings of the air crash hearing even before the press did.

   • 1985, Julian Jay Savarin, Gunship, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, published 1988, →ISBN, page 162:

     There were two pilots inside, strapped in and be-headphoned at their stations.

   • 1995 April, Mean Machines Sega, number 30, page 12:

     A colourful roustabout aimed mainly at kids, players control two be[-]headphoned little creatures as they tour the Sonic city, looking for opportunities to dance to disco and kick the baddies.

   • 1998 August 21, Neil Webb, “Perhaps mobiles are the answer”, in Reading Weekend Post, page 95:

     The card school, the reader, the be-headphoned groover – I don’t think much has changed in the habits of passing the time on board the team bus.

   • 2008, Dan Kieran, Ian Vince, Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph, John Murray, published 2009, →ISBN, page 145:

     Standing there in the car park with Prasanth’s camera trained on me and Dan, be-headphoned and with a microphone pointing at Chris, I was just having a minor media whore moment – of the kind you’d expect to see if you teleported a film crew of Channel 4 gits to the centre of somewhere that really couldn’t give a toss – when in cycled a man at great speed on a bicycle that appeared slightly too small for him.

   • 2009 August 19, Glenn Guilbeau, “Growton imagining his options”, in The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, La., page 1D:

     Gary Crowton was basically be-head-phoned in 2008. The crafty LSU offensive coordinator rarely was able to unleash his playbook and keep his headphones tuned to the state of the art in play calling as he did during LSU’s national championship season in 2007.

   • 2011, Rob Smyth, Georgina Turner, Jumpers for Goalposts: How Football Sold Its Soul, Elliott and Thompson Limited, →ISBN, page 206:

     The be-headphoned Matt Le Tissier, Paul Merson, Phil Thompson and Charlie Nicholas are an excellent quartet, working perfectly in tandem with Stelling, a genuine broadcasting genius.

   • 2017, Ryan P. Harper, “Introduction”, in The Gaithers and Southern Gospel: Homecoming in the Twenty-First Century, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN:

     Straight out of the Gaithers’ mobile makeup/hair salon, the freshly coiffed gospel music mogul talked to me as we walked through a flashing gauntlet of video equipment and be[-]headphoned, fast-talking stage technicians, wires flailing behind them like jellyfish tentacles.