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pothead

pothead

20 9.4
A person who often smokes marijuana
  • noun
  • /ˈpɑːtˌhɛd/
  • Offensive
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  • He calls himself a pothead after smoking cannabis almost every day for years.
  • a bunch of potheads
  • a fucking pothead
  • a pothead brother

Coincidentally not me trying to be a pothead, because I'm not.

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Examples

  • Orange County skins were laid-back dropouts in their teens and twenties, surfers, skateboarders, and potheads.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • I'd like to hear about it, potheads.

  • But it had been a lot of years, and even potheads move away.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I think you two are a pair of potheads.

  • She told him I was a pothead.

  • So I can say this, but as a forever slight pothead, your movie was very inspirational to me.

  • Well, I'm Jamal, a pothead.

  • He was a garden-variety pothead.

  • I've got a 13-year-old who's a pothead.

  • Cafeteria Mark Shale, a seventeen-year-old, rail-thin pothead, is sitting at a table in the crowded cafeteria eating lunch.

    Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

stoner
vspothead
  • NSFW
29 8.2

A person who often uses marijuana

refers specifically to someone who habitually smokes marijuana
classic pothead
vspothead
  • Offensive
9.2

A person who regularly smokes marijuana and behaves like a typical marijuana smoker

is the neutral term for habitual smoking without stereotype
hash head
vspothead
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who often smokes hash, a kind of illegal drug

focuses on habitual smoking of marijuana not specifically hashish

Antonyms

6.7

A person who avoids things like sweets or alcohol for moral and religious reasons

Compounds

classic pothead
  • Offensive
9.2

A person who regularly smokes marijuana and behaves like a typical marijuana smoker

How Often

addict
  • NSFW
316 4.3
pothead
  • Offensive
20 9.4
drug user
  • NSFW
31 3.7
non-user
4.1

Surface Forms

pothead singular
potheads plural

Morphology

pothead = pot + head (transparent) = pot + head

The meaning 'person who habitually uses pot' is a straightforward compound of 'pot' (marijuana) + 'head' (person), understandable to learners who know both components.

Etymology

The word pothead comes from pot (a common slang word for 'marijuana') and head (a way to say a person who likes or does something a lot), so it means someone who often smokes or uses marijuana.