beheadphoned

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beheadphoned (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of be-headphoned.
    • 1971, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, volume 16, page 1075, column 3:
      Revox demonstrated several A77 recorders to beheadphoned visitors []
    • 1990, J. B. Miller, My Life in Action Painting, New York, N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld, →ISBN, page 173:
      In the corner sits a small bald, bearded man beheadphoned—Degas’s Absinthe Drinker in a Walkman.
    • 1996, Richard E. Grant, With Nails: The Film Diaries of Richard E. Grant, Picador, published 1997, →ISBN, page 108:
      A walk in Beverly Hills is an unusual prospect, the only non[-]motorized human sightings so far are restricted to Mexican gardeners and the odd lone jogger, usually betowelled, betogged and beheadphoned to within an inch of his/her life.
    • 2004, Will Randall, Indian Summer, Leicester: Ulverscroft, published 2005, →ISBN, page 230:
      The beheadphoned soundman looked up sharply in my direction and I suddenly remembered the tiny microphone hidden in the folds of my robes.
    • 2021, William Ian Miller, “The Law of Conservation of Good Things”, in Outrageous Fortune: Gloomy Reflections on Luck and Life, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 34:
      Instead, we must find an unworthy substitute for the defeat of a foe in that small grin we quickly suppress when we learn that a beheadphoned texter got hit by a car—no, not seriously injured, just bruised up enough to give him a wake-up call.