pothead

noun

Definition of potheadnext
as in crackhead

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Recent Examples of pothead 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 Julie has nice conversations with Kenny and Randall, and is on the road to full pothead at this point. — Erik Kain, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024 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 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
  • There were crackheads in the neighborhood, and, once, his landlady’s dog was injured by gunfire.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Hunter Biden spent years being called a crackhead on the internet by Candace Owens.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026
Definition of crackhead
Noun
  • Washington Square Park was lightly populated with the usual chess players and itinerant stoners.
    — Kurt Loder, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The place had inscrutable stoner-eclectic décor, with pictures of Salvador Dalí on serving-tray papers and a Rastafarian lion statuette on the counter.
    — Ruby Tandoh, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of stoner
Noun
  • 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
Definition of druggie
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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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  • Let the record show, however, that the 22-year-old power/speed freak has not slowed down.
    — Andy Behrens, New York Times, 8 June 2026
  • At the end of that decade, in 1999, as the fourth-generation SL was entering its twilight years, the speed freaks at AMG decided to create a special SL hotrod.
    — Brett Berk, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2026
Definition of speed freak
Noun
  • In comparison, LaBeouf has long been open about his tumultuous childhood and has said that his father was a recovering addict, and at times abusive.
    — Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Leigh, Beck was told, was a drug addict who had been cheating on him behind his back.
    — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of addict
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  • The residents occasionally gather in a disused rec center but the meetings devolve into rants about immigrants, junkies, thugs and vigilantism.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
  • Abrams delivered a standout performance as an unhoused junkie thief in the critical and commercial hit that would go on to win an Oscar (Amy Madigan as best supporting actress).
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of junkie

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