wastoid

plural wastoids

1. derogatoryoffensiveslangA person with a drug or alcohol addiction.

   Andrew Clark: Yo, wastoid. You're not gonna blaze up in here.

   1985, John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, 00:54:35

2. derogatoryoffensiveslangA person regarded with contempt; a loser.

   "They look like the stupid kind of wastoids who get gobbled up in the first ten minutes of a horror movie," I said.

   1999, Michael Hornburg, Downers Grove, Grove Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 133

3. derogatoryoffensiveslangAn absent-minded or vacuous person.

   Oh God. What if he was talking to me and I didn't say anything and was just sitting here staring into space like a complete wastoid? Eva blinked. Did I just use the word wastoid?

   2004, Kate Brian, The V Club, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 16

   Synonyms: airhead, space cadet