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crackhead
[krak-hed]
crackhead
/ ˈæˌɛ /
noun
slanga person addicted to the drug crack
Word History and Origins
Origin of crackhead1
Example Sentences
In 2014, media regulator Ofcom upheld a complaint relating to the treatment of a 17-year-old girl who was called a "crackhead" and a "silly anorexic slapper" by her older sister on air.
On Monday, a video began circulating showing him slapping away an artist known as Crackhead Barney's phone when confronted at a coffee shop just feet away from his New York City home.
He called Ulanga “a crackhead,” and noted Phillips was living “back in the projects.”
“I’ve been all over the country and have interviewed hundreds of people whose lives were touched by crack, but never have I met a ‘crackhead,’” Donovan X. Ramsey writes toward the end of his first book, “When Crack Was King: A People’s History of a Misunderstood Era.”
“He looks like a crackhead to me!”
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When To Use
A crackhead is a slang term for someone who is addicted to or does a lot of the drug crack cocaine. The word is more generally used to insult someone considered to be acting like a crackhead, that is, wildly and stupidly.
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