1. a person, especially a young woman or girl, who wears their hair in a bun
Usage: informal; often used in ballet or dance contexts
2. a ballet dancer or someone devoted to ballet
Usage: informal; slang

Examples

• She pulled her hair into a tight bun and looked like a true bunhead.
• The bunheads at the dance academy practiced their routines every afternoon.
• My daughter wants to be a bunhead and has been taking ballet lessons for three years.
• The studio was full of young bunheads preparing for the recital.
• She's such a bunhead—she spends all her free time at ballet class.