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From beer + -head.
beerhead (plural beerheads)
- (colloquial) A drunk.
1918, Edna Ferber, Cheerful--By Request[1]:I can lick a whole regiment of them beerheads with one hand tied behind me an' my feet in a sack.
1995 February 10, anonymous author, “Me And My Monkey”, in Chicago Reader[2]:You know, fools and beerheads.