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dopehead

[dohp-hed]

noun

Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.
  1. a person addicted to drugs.



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Other Word Forms

  • dopeheaded adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of dopehead1

First recorded in 1900–05; dope + head (in the sense “habitual user of a drug”)
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Example Sentences

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But when we get into arguments, he’ll bring up things like, ‘You’re a dopehead,’ and it’s really hurtful.”

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Some of the new entrepreneurs, like Poiss, fit the dopehead stereotype, with shaggy hair, beards, a fondness for plaid shirts and a faraway look in their eyes as they speak.

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While some critics have savoured this narcotic vibe, the distinguished author and broadcaster Robert Hughes compared it, less kindly, with "the rambling, no-rules character of a dopehead's monologue".

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It is you who should be locked up and not some poor hippy who was laying a quarter ounce of grass on a fellow dopehead.

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His work has the rambling, no-rules character of a dopehead's monologue.

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