cokehead

[kohk-hed]

noun

Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cokehead¹

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

Example Sentences

At the outset, Ronson wanted his book to capture the seediness of 90s club culture, where he'd play "night in, night out for $100" while "cokehead club owners shouted at me for not playing enough Madonna".

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Explaining his decision to sniff cocaine off a changing table in a public restroom Mulaney quips: "When you're a cokehead you see the world in terms of surfaces."

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Nicki Minaj is taking legal action against gossip blogger ‘Nosey Heaux,’ who allegedly called the rapper a ‘cokehead’ and made ‘vile’ comments about her son.

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The complaint claims that the video calling Minaj a “cokehead” received nearly 2,000 likes on Twitter and more than 260 retweets, leading to a “firestorm of social media attention.”

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Among the 14 characters Wagner wrote for Lily Tomlin — her partner then, and her wife since 2013 — just two were male; only one, a health nut by day and a cokehead by night, remains in the revised edition presented here.

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