pothead

noun

Definition of potheadnext
as in crackhead

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Recent Examples of pothead And there’s their half-sister Rachel (Natasha Lyonne), a pothead who still lives at home and makes a living by parlaying bets on football games. — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2024 Jim Jones has opened up about recently experiencing sobriety for the first time in over three decades, as the unabashed pothead recently had to give up the vice for an extended period. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 29 Jan. 2025 That means there are more 24-hour potheads stumbling around the United States (in California, especially) than ever before. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2026 Breakout star Snoop still entices a mindless constituency through partisan pothead epithets that might even embarrass RINOs on the GOP debate stage. — Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023 See All Example Sentences for pothead
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pothead
  1. crackhead
  2. stoner
  3. druggie
  4. cokehead
  5. speed freak
  6. addict
  7. junkie
Noun
  • Hunter Biden spent years being called a crackhead on the internet by Candace Owens.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026
  • George Clinton, interviewed in the film, says that the two were crackheads together.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
Definition of crackhead
Noun
  • Harold & Kumar producer Greg Shapiro confirmed that the fourth instalment of the stoner buddy comedy franchise is still set to go ahead, with key writers and actors all lined up for the upcoming project.
    — Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 7 July 2026
  • In addition to cowriting the script, Marlon Wayans was the film’s resident stoner, Shorty Meeks, who was usually hanging out with friends or, y’know, the killer.
    — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026
Definition of stoner
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  • But where a female-friendship show like Tuca & Bertie falls into the trap of presenting relatability at the expense of creativity, YOLO introduces a dynamic that is depraved, boozy, druggy, shaggy, and totally amoral.
    — Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • 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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  • Biel is a pitiless cokehead who, we’re told, later marries a senator and has four kids.
    — Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
  • 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
Definition of cokehead
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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
  • 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
Definition of speed freak
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  • In the movie, set in the rolling hills of Meeks’s native central Ohio, a group of addicts get a second (or third or fourth) chance to make right in their lives.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 1 July 2026
  • Listen to this week’s episode to learn more, including the story of how a Civil War vet and morphine addict accidentally invented the world’s most famous soda.
    — Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 1 July 2026
Definition of addict
Noun
  • Could a dirty Thai tea cheer up former pizza junkies instead?
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 7 July 2026
  • Compared with protein, which lends itself to narratives of growth—more grams, more gains—fibre is a bit of a hard sell, likelier to be espoused by women in sensible shoes than by fitness junkies on Twitch.
    — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of junkie

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