cokehead

American  

[kohk-hed] / ˈkoʊkˌhɛd /

noun

Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a person addicted to cocaine; a habitual user of cocaine.

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Etymology

Origin of cokehead

An Americanism dating back to 1920–25; coke ² + head (in the sense “habitual user of a drug”)

Example Sentences

Few would have expected an insecure, resentful, former cokehead to be such an empathetic conversationalist, I tell him.

From The Guardian

Stan works for a slimy cokehead played by James Van Der Beek, but these rich white men stay, largely, at the fringes of the show.

From Slate

He has tweeted that Mr. Schneiderman wears “Revlon eyeliner” — his dark eyelashes have been attributed to the side effect of a glaucoma medication — and said he needed to take a drug test because the attorney general “cannot be a cokehead,” without presenting evidence that he was.

From New York Times

Jennings was at his cokehead worst, his skin crawling so badly he’d scratch himself raw and couldn’t sleep.

From Washington Post

And that would put him back in that emergency room, with that untrained doctor who just won’t believe he’s not a cokehead.

From The Guardian