hophead
2
9.9
- noun
- /ˈhɑpˌhɛd/
- Offensive
- The hophead failed to recognize the danger when she shared needles with others.
Examples
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He was a hophead who let it slip that he sometimes snitched to the cops for dope money.
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The kind who takes pills the doctor gives her so she doesn't have to admit to being a hophead.
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How come the hophead was gone and I was still here?
Fiction book (1998) -
Who knew what other nasty surprises the hophead had left?
Fiction book (1998) -
Crazy hopheads like that, well, you never knew what they were gonna do.
Fiction book (1994) -
When some of the hopheads and bugger boys get hold of him, he won't soon forget it.
Fiction book (1993) -
I got a tip for the hophead who's going to be at Norton and Coliseum tonight.
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Bunch of hopheads.
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You're finished, hopheads.
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Many people in the neighborhood avoided the hophead, fearing he would try to sell them drugs.
Synonyms
148
8.6
A person who is addicted to illegal drugs, often called in an insulting way
113
3.0
A person who cannot stop using illegal or harmful drugs
77
7.5
A person who regularly takes illegal or addictive drugs
22
5.1
A person who keeps using heroin even when it harms them
16
9.4
A person who often smokes marijuana
16
9.2
A person who regularly uses illegal drugs
11
9.9
A person who cannot stop using illegal drugs, often said in an insulting way
11
6.1
A person who uses crack cocaine and cannot stop
9
9.9
A person who uses the illegal drug crack and cannot stop
7
9.9
A person who regularly uses the drug cocaine
3
9.6
A person who uses illegal drugs and cannot stop
1
7.2
A person who uses opium and cannot stop
1
9.9
A person who is addicted to the drug meth
1
9.8
A person who often uses illegal substances
1
9.5
A person who takes prescription pills too often and cannot stop
1
9.9
A person who often smokes hash, a kind of illegal drug
1
9.9
A person who often takes illegal pills to get high
1
9.9
A person who carelessly uses dangerous drugs such as PCP
1
9.9
A person who regularly takes LSD
1
9.9
A person who is addicted to crack and uses it in binges
1
9.9
A person who often uses illegal drugs
1
9.9
A person who regularly takes drugs like LSD that change how they think and see things
1
9.8
A person who often uses the drug opium and cannot stop
A person who regularly smokes marijuana and behaves like a typical marijuana smoker
How Addicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hophead comes from older slang where hop meant 'opium' or other strong drugs, and -head means 'a person who is into something', as in metalhead. So a hophead was someone addicted to narcotics.