pillhead
- noun
- /ˈpɪlˌhɛd/
- Offensive
- Your answers to these questions will determine whether or not you are a pillhead.
Examples
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We're not sure these gurning pillheads will
Blog text (7) -
These drug addicts and pillheads around here, most of them will never get clean.
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Doorman's a pillhead on parole.
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Morning, Pillhead.
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"... does that automatically make me one of those pillheads looking to sell my meds?"
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He's a pillhead.
Fiction book (1992) -
I had a liver transplant some years back, and I was on some really heavy-duty pain meds. Does that automatically make me one of those pillheads looking to sell my meds?
Blog text (25) -
I remember that miserable bastard Rush "Pillhead" Limbaugh and his brain-dead Dittohead followers calling Perot a racist for opposing NAFTA.
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The doctor warned him that being a pillhead could ruin his health.
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Many people struggle with addiction, but not everyone identifies as a pillhead.
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 regularly takes illegal or addictive drugs
A person who takes illegal or recreational drugs
A person who often uses illegal substances
A person who cannot stop using illegal drugs, often said in an insulting way
A person who regularly uses drugs in a harmful or illegal way
A person who often uses illegal drugs
A person who is addicted to illegal drugs
A person who often takes illegal pills to get high
A person who uses illegal drugs and cannot stop
Antonyms
How Addicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word pillhead comes from joining pill and head, like pothead for someone who uses a lot of pot; it gives the image of a person's head full of pills, so it means a person 'addicted' to pills.