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pothead

American  
[pot-hed] / ˈpɒtˌhɛd /

noun

Slang.
  1. a person who habitually smokes marijuana.


pothead British  
/ ˈpɒtˌhɛd /

noun

  1. slang a habitual user of cannabis

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  • potheaded adjective

Etymology

Origin of pothead

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70; pot 2 + head

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Within a few months, he had a breakout role in “River’s Edge” as the one honorable teen pothead in a group dealing with a murdered peer.

From Washington Post

The advice that seasoned potheads sometimes give new users—“start low and go slow”—is probably good advice for society as a whole, at least until we better understand what we are dealing with.

From The New Yorker

We were both 1967 potheads, so we smoked a joint and that was the beginning of a long, long friendship.”

From Fox News

The first, a gentle pothead in his twenties, told of getting arrested for smoking on a stoop in New York, and losing his financial aid at Santa Barbara City College.

From The New Yorker

“Young people from all over the world will come to smoke weed in Montreal, and we will soon become a country of potheads,” he said as he rode his electric scooter through downtown Montreal.

From New York Times