pothead

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Recent Examples of pothead 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 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 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
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
  • That’s not because our tolerance for stoner comedies, or even dramas, has gone up.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Kesselman hopes Gen Z will gravitate to High Times like previous generations of stoners did.
    Steve Bloom, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
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
Noun
  • Biel is a pitiless cokehead who, we’re told, later marries a senator and has four kids.
    Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
  • 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
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
Noun
  • AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.
    Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • In that same spirit, Sorsby might maintain that discipline of college athletes for wagering is unfair if those athletes are gambling addicts.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Located within the storied Art Deco walls of the former Larrabee Sound Studios, where Prince and Cher once recorded, Mic Drop is a new West Hollywood hot spot for the karaoke junkie.
    Air Mail, Air Mail, 2 May 2026
  • Hughes has been described a hockey nerd or hockey junkie by many of his former teammates and coaches.
    Joe Smith, New York Times, 1 May 2026

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“Pothead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pothead. Accessed 15 May. 2026.

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