Clam Head ?


Richard Widmark's character keeps calling everyone a clam head. I've never heard this term. At first I thought maybe it was an ethnic slur, but he seems to call everyone by that name. Does anybody know the origin of this insult.

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It's like saying dumba$$. There's some stuff on urban dictionary about it and I would guess it is the one about the kind of person who is such a dork and the only thing he's good at is digging clams.

What's really funny is, you know the scene where he's eating soup? And he put little crackers in it? That wouldn't be CLAM chowder would it? So now he's a clam head!

Let's just say that God doesn't believe in me.

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It beats what he said to the porter: "Here ya go, ya tarbucket!"

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