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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
Nicki Minaj is a cokehead!
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Sep. 2022
The clumsiest interlude occurs in a bar, where Killian is approached by a drunken cokehead who steers him into the bathroom to snort a few lines.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
Or at least let our villainous cokehead get a spinoff!
—Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 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
Nicki Minaj is a cokehead!
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 14 Sep. 2022
The clumsiest interlude occurs in a bar, where Killian is approached by a drunken cokehead who steers him into the bathroom to snort a few lines.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2023
Or at least let our villainous cokehead get a spinoff!
—Meecham Whitson Meriweather, Vulture, 28 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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Of the three leads, Rahim is the most unrecognizable, having gone full Jared Leto-in-Dallas Buyers Club to portray a druggie at the very end of his tether.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2025
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The hidden joke of their routines — what even a lot of the long-haired druggie types in the audience didn’t quite get — is that the counterculture was over.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
28 Apr. 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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Penn’s happy stoner surfer dude Jeff Spicoli immediately became the movie’s poster boy and comedy focal point.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
25 July 2025
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The band’s macabre theatricality pricks up in the advancing madness of shows from hard-rock staples like Alice Cooper throughout the ’70s and the plummeting tempos that would inform stoner rock and sludge metal later on.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
25 July 2025
Noun
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Played by Austin Abrams with the wiry desperation and cunning of an addict, James is an unhoused junkie living in a tent in the woods, who has a nasty brush with Paul.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Aug. 2025
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Coupled with modern photos of addicts struggling with addiction, Flischel uses Hearn’s words to create a harrowing account, something common throughout the pages of his historical photo book.—
Otto Rabe,
The Enquirer,
27 July 2025
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“Cokehead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cokehead. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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