basehead

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noun

A habitual user of freebase; a crackhead.

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Meanings

nounbasehead (plural baseheads)

plural baseheads

  1. slangAfrican-American VernacularA habitual user of freebase; a crackhead.

    Every basehead wake up and start do heroin instead?

    2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 518
    1 more example

    Motherfucker, is you crazy?" I grilled Pimp. "Can't no basehead niggah be depended on to watch nothing!"

    2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106

Origin

From (free)base + -head.

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APA

basehead. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/basehead

MLA

“basehead.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/basehead. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “basehead,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/basehead.

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