dopehead

[ dohp-hed ]

noun

, Slang: Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a person addicted to drugs.

Other Words From

• dope·head·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of dopehead¹

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

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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.

From The Guardian

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".

From The Guardian

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.

From The Guardian

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Related Words

• addict
• drug user
• substance abuser
• user