sherm-head

9.9

A person who carelessly uses dangerous drugs such as PCP

noun

Offensive

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At the party, a couple of sherm-heads were causing a commotion in the backyard.

Examples

She warned her brother not to hang out with sherm-head types from the neighborhood.
He was once considered a sherm-head, but now he has changed his lifestyle.
That guy is such a sherm-head.
Many sherm-heads hang out near the park.
At the party, a couple of sherm-heads were causing a commotion in the backyard.
She warned her brother not to hang out with sherm-head types from the neighborhood.
He was once considered a sherm-head, but now he has changed his lifestyle.

Synonyms

druggie

vssherm-head

Offensive

12 9.2

A person who regularly uses illegal drugs

is specifically about reckless use of certain strong drugs

dopehead

vssherm-head

Offensive

2 9.9

A person who often uses illegal drugs

focuses on reckless use rather than regular habit

hophead

vssherm-head

Offensive

1 9.9

A person who is addicted to illegal drugs

describes reckless use of specific strong drugs not necessarily addiction

Surface Forms

sherm-head singular

sherm-heads plural

Morphology

sherm-head = sherm + head (opaque) = sherm + head

The form is a compound of 'sherm' and 'head', but 'sherm' is slang and the drug-user meaning is not predictably recoverable for an average learner.

Etymology

Sherm-head comes from the street word sherm, meaning 'a cigarette soaked with the drug PCP', and head, a common way to say 'someone who uses or likes something', as in pothead. So, a sherm-head is a person who uses those drugs and often behaves in a risky or wild way.