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head shop

noun

, Slang.
  1. a shop selling paraphernalia of interest to drug users or associated with the use of drugs.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of head shop1

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70
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Example Sentences

But many of the mushroom chocolates and gummies sold in Southern California head shops, it seems, are not as advertised.

Annapurna, the head shop that opened in 1969 at the same time as the historic demonstrations at the now boarded-up People’s Park, has survived.

The new style of comic book, published on an infrequent basis by small presses and sold in head shops, featured dark satire, drug use and explicit sex and violence.

She worked as a model, a secretary for the BBC, a Playboy bunny and a clerk at a head shop.

Hi is an old-fashioned head shop a few doors down from Friendly Stranger.

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