dope fiend

noun

Etymology

From dope + fiend.

  1. derived from *peh₁-
  2. inherited from *fijandz
  3. inherited from *fijand
  4. inherited from fēond — “enemy
  5. inherited from fend
  6. compounded as dope fiend — “dope + fiend

Definitions

  1. A person who abuses drugs.

    • Of course you know how prohibition works in many places and how the law is beaten. The dope fiends seem to be doing the same thing with this law.
    • That's the trouble with ya New York dope fiends. Ya got a rotten attitude.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dope fiend. 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