hophead
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9.9
- noun
- /ˈhɑpˌhɛd/
- Offensive
:
yonqui
- 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
194
8.6
A person who is addicted to illegal drugs, often called in an insulting way
97
3.0
A person who cannot stop using illegal or harmful drugs
86
7.5
A person who regularly takes illegal or addictive drugs
40
9.9
A person who uses the illegal drug crack and cannot stop
20
9.4
A person who often smokes marijuana
20
5.1
A person who keeps using heroin even when it harms them
12
9.2
A person who regularly uses illegal drugs
9
6.1
A person who uses crack cocaine and cannot stop
7
9.8
A person who often uses illegal substances
7
9.9
A person who regularly uses the drug cocaine
7
9.9
A person who cannot stop using illegal drugs, often said in an insulting way
2
9.9
A person who often uses illegal drugs
1
7.2
A person who uses opium and cannot stop
1
9.9
A person who is addicted to the drug meth
1
9.5
A person who takes prescription pills too often and cannot stop
1
9.6
A person who uses illegal drugs and cannot stop
1
9.9
A person who often takes illegal pills to get high
1
9.9
A person who regularly takes LSD
A person who often uses the drug opium and cannot stop
A person who regularly takes drugs like LSD that change how they think and see things
A person who often smokes hash, a kind of illegal drug
A person who regularly smokes marijuana and behaves like a typical marijuana smoker
A person who carelessly uses dangerous drugs such as PCP
A person who is addicted to crack and uses it in binges
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.