crackhead

Meanings

nouncrackhead (plural crackheads)

plural crackheads · alternative crack head

derogatoryslangA person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine.
My shooter a crackhead, he look like Woody Harrelson
2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 02:11 from the start, in dracula flow 3
USderogatoryslangSomeone whose thinking makes no sense; a fool or an idiot; broadly, any contemptible person.
You know who strangled the old man? You know who did it? A fuckin' stupid crackhead! He is pointing at himself and in tears. It's Ava's landlord who is dead.
1977, Oberon Press (publisher), Best Canadian Stories, page 75
Synonyms: addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead

nounSomeone whose thinking makes no sense; a fool or an idiot; broadly, any contemptible person.

Also see

From crack + -head. First sense appears c. 1978. Second sense appears c. 1977 in Best Canadian Stories.

Finnish crack-kokainisti

French accro au crack

Polish kokainista, kokainistka

Portuguese noia, cracudo

Swedish crackpundare

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