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
  • There’s a lot of stoners and burnouts and yoga people and surf people and local people.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2026
  • But for a few lucky survivors — a Hollywood agent, Amish woman, social media influencer, pregnant agoraphobic and her shotgun-wielding stoner mother — the apocalypse might just be a new beginning.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 Nov. 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
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  • At last week’s post-election Crooked Con, a gathering of progressive activists, strategists, influencers, and podcast addicts, the demand for new leaders hung in the air.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 10 Nov. 2026
  • The church is working in the area with municipal authorities to build housing and provide rehab programs for addicts.
    — ISABEL DEBRE, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026
Definition of addict
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  • An adrenaline junkie, spendthrift and incorrigible mischief-maker, Daniel arrives with his younger wife Ayesha and becomes the weekend’s most disruptive presence.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2026
  • Like his predecessor, he was described by his high school coach, David Rebibo, as a high-IQ basketball junkie who cares about nothing other than winning.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 1 Nov. 2026
Definition of junkie

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