pothead
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potheads
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Nor did I assimilate with any of the clown cliques — the jock clowns with their acrobatics, the pothead clowns, the earnest ones who formed study groups.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2012
Northern pilot whale, long-finned pilot whale, pothead, blackfish, calling whale, caa'ing whale.
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell
It is the stomping ground of academics and potheads, hustlers and innocents, dissidents and wing-tipped businessmen, poets and folk singers.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2017
For generations, Newfoundlanders have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay.
From Time Magazine Archive
To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward.
From Time Magazine Archive
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