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Recent Examples of cokehead
Each of the many phishing centers answers to Derek Danforth (Josh Hutcherson), a douchey 28-year-old rich-kid cokehead who tools around his office on a skateboard in extraordinarily ugly outfits (that puke-green suit!) and bad highlights.
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David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
It was rumored Pacino’s character was a cokehead, something Pacino and Mann have copped to in recent years.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
Any cokeheads who—like stoners at a Judd Apatow flick—await every knowing wink will be disappointed: These are surprisingly few and far between.
—WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
Or at least let our villainous cokehead get a spinoff!
—Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
Nicki Minaj is a cokehead!
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Sep. 2022
Among the 14 characters Wagner wrote for Lily Tomlin — her partner then, and her wife since 2013 — just two were male; only one, a health nut by day and a cokehead by night, remains in the revised edition presented here.
—New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
It is run by Saul Prokosh, a cokehead and would-be slick operator—yet another person trying to get a handle on the relation between mind and brain.
—Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 4 June 2021
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2024
It was rumored Pacino’s character was a cokehead, something Pacino and Mann have copped to in recent years.
—Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
Any cokeheads who—like stoners at a Judd Apatow flick—await every knowing wink will be disappointed: These are surprisingly few and far between.
—WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
Or at least let our villainous cokehead get a spinoff!
—Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2022
Nicki Minaj is a cokehead!
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Sep. 2022
Among the 14 characters Wagner wrote for Lily Tomlin — her partner then, and her wife since 2013 — just two were male; only one, a health nut by day and a cokehead by night, remains in the revised edition presented here.
—New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
It is run by Saul Prokosh, a cokehead and would-be slick operator—yet another person trying to get a handle on the relation between mind and brain.
—Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 4 June 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cokehead
Noun
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George Clinton, interviewed in the film, says that the two were crackheads together.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2025
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The New York Post is like having the New York Times summarized for you by a crackhead.—
Hershal Pandya,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2024
Noun
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Xavier is both when first introduced, but the slacker pothead lives long enough to reveal his chivalrous side.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
30 June 2025
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The streamer then released the Illana Glazer: Human Magic in December, which delved into Glazer’s awkward high school years and raising a family as a pothead.—
Kalia Richardson,
Rolling Stone,
25 Feb. 2025
Noun
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But then my druggy yet still aspirationally sober friend at the meeting ran after me.—
Brontez Purnell,
Harpers Magazine,
23 Nov. 2025
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Seth Rogen and [costar] Ike Barinholtz, ‘You guys are huge druggies!—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Sure, the idea of more power always sounds better to confirmed speed freaks such as myself, but simply turning up the wick wouldn’t keep with the RBW ethos—and might throw that balance fully out of whack, in fact.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Yet in that regard, the instantaneous torque of electric propulsion could still provide enough thrust to satisfy speed freaks driving a production Sollei.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes,
20 Sep. 2024
Noun
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If the recovering addicts’ primary task was to filter out women who wouldn’t qualify to sue—namely, those who didn’t have pelvic mesh or who did but weren’t in pain—Blake’s was to amp up the value of their lawsuits (and attorneys’ fees) by convincing them to have their mesh surgically removed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Drug addicts with needles frequently openly camp in front of the hospital, and in early December a security guard suffered serious injuries in a stabbing on the BMC campus.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Dispatches is essential to understanding a cluster of journalists who covered the war, notably the enigmatic hippies and stoners in the circle around whom photojournalists Tim Page, Dana Stone and Sean Flynn were the centre of gravity.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Dec. 2025
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That’s right, the guy who wrote a movie about two stoners who can’t find their car now wants to ask you about your mother.—
Phil Stark,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Dec. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Cokehead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cokehead. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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