crackhead
- noun
- /ˈkrækˌhɛd/
- Offensive
- The news reported on a crackhead who had stolen from local shops to feed his addiction.
- crackhead smoking crack
- addicts and crackheads
- crackheads and drugs
It was crime rate, a lot of drugs, crackheads, gangs.
- It was crime rate, a lot of drugs, crackheads, gangs.
- They had families, were crackheads, drug dealers, abusers.
- This is his last son, Hunter, who is a crackhead who did coke in the White House.
- And I will say also a lot of crackheads in the city.
- He worked for them, but he was a crackhead.
- But you still get to be, you know, addicted crackhead.
- Like the, the, the byproduct, the thing that gets our attention is the, the Skid Row drug addict crackhead that.
- Yeah, Because they know that once you start using, you're off your game and then you just become another crackhead.
- Don't go hang out with the crackhead on the corner who is going to bring your life down if you start hanging out with them, but hang out with whoever you want.
- You know, they'll say good morning, crackheads out there.
- I'm young enough to where I never seen a crackhead pre crack.
- And once again, I'm like, I'm like, the guy was a crackhead.
- I think the administration knows that Biden's a crackhead.
- And this is coming from, I know I don't have to remind the audience a fucking crackhead.
Examples
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Sure, there are crackheads, dealers, and people too desperate, depressed, or impoverished to repair their homes.
Blog text (27) -
It's the crackhead we saw mumbling to himself in the nod-off zone.
Fiction book (2001) -
I am not a crackhead.
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Maybe he was a crackhead.
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There's this crackhead named Shorty.
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Most times, crackheads don't know where they are.
Fiction book (1993) -
That's why we have skits about, you know, crackheads who will do just about anything possible to feed that addiction.
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Every morning, I see a group of crackheads loitering near the bus station.
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She spoke openly about the struggles of being a crackhead and how it affected her family.
Synonyms
Slang for a person who often uses illegal drugs
A person who is addicted to illegal drugs, often called in an insulting way
A person who cannot stop using illegal or harmful drugs
A person who takes illegal or recreational drugs
A person who regularly uses illegal drugs
A person who uses crack cocaine and cannot stop
A person who regularly uses the drug cocaine
A person who often uses illegal substances
A person who cannot stop using illegal drugs, often said in an insulting way
A person who keeps using cocaine even though it harms them
A person who often uses illegal drugs
A person who uses cocaine and often cannot stop
A person who is addicted to illegal drugs
A person who uses a lot of cocaine and damages their health or life
A person who uses illegal drugs and cannot stop
A person who is addicted to crack and uses it in binges
How Addicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crackhead comes from the drug crack and the word head, which in slang names someone with a strong habit, as in pothead ('a person who uses marijuana a lot'). So crackhead originally meant a person addicted to crack cocaine and is used for that serious addiction.