bubblehead

bubblehead
 n.โ€” ยซDrivers are divided into “incredibly nutty drivers” and “incredibly wacky drivers” with names to matchโ€”such as “Commodore Bubblehead,” who “seems to have spent a little too much time bumping his head on the hatchways in the submarine service.”ยป โ€”โ€œHarboring Liberty In Pursuit Of Happiness, Visitors Find Bean Town Full Of Revolutionary Ideas” by Katherine Calos Richmond Times-Dispatch (Virginia) July 5, 1998. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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