crackhead

American  

[krak-hed] / ˈkrækˌhɛd /

noun

Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a habitual user of cocaine in the form of crack.

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crackhead British  

/ ˈkrækˌhɛd /

noun

1. slang a person addicted to the drug crack

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Usage

What does crackhead mean? 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.

Etymology

Origin of crackhead

First recorded in 1985–90; crack ( def. ) (in the sense of “purified cocaine”) + head (in the sense “habitual user of a drug”)

Example Sentences

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.

From Salon

“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.”

From Los Angeles Times

“With this name I could not grow up to be a crackhead.”

From Washington Post

She had been undecided, she said, but would now vote for Biden – who she had watched trying to “win an argument with a crackhead”.

From The Guardian

Mr. Drudge also did not pull any punches after Tuesday’s presidential debate: “Chaos reigns in hell debate … Undecided voters describe President as a ‘crackhead,’ ‘arrogant’ in focus group … Joe faces down raging Don.”

From New York Times