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crackhead

noun
/ˈkɹæk.hɛd/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from *gerh₂-✻
  2. inherited from *krakōn✻ — “to crack, crackle, shriek”
  3. inherited from cracian
  4. inherited from crakken
  5. suffixed as crackhead — “crack + head”

Definitions

  1. A person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine.

    • My shooter a crackhead, he look like Woody Harrelson

  2. Someone whose thinking makes no sense

    Someone 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for crackhead. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA