pothead

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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 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 Most people see the humor in it, and the way the woozy sonic touches play into the exploits of a pothead. Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 8 Mar. 2023 He was suspended for nearly three seasons and became a national punchline as the pothead who threw away his career. Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for pothead
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pothead
Noun
  • George Clinton, interviewed in the film, says that the two were crackheads together.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The New York Post is like having the New York Times summarized for you by a crackhead.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • 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.
    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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Later, another encounter with James leads both of them to the aforementioned house as the druggie is looking to get rich quick with the $50,000 reward for information leading to the discovery of the kids.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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

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“Pothead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pothead. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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