crackhead

crackhead

One who is addicted to crack cocaine. Yeah, I used to be a crackhead, but rehab saved my life. This neighborhood has gotten really bad—it's crawling with crackheads.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crackhead

n. a user of crack. (Drugs.) They brought an eight-year-old crackhead in for treatment.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • coke
  • drughead
  • cokeaholic
  • hophead
  • aholic
  • aholics
  • cokehead
  • blower
  • incentive
  • on the natch
References in periodicals archive
I tell her she's bad for lying about Daddy being a crackhead, and I have my face smacked so hard I see flashes.
how strange that ludicrous crackhead Phil Mitchell marked the historic departure of his fire-damaged mother by turning into a pirate.
This doesn't come as a complete surprise, considering that Reich once eked out a living doing sketch comedy, appearing in TV commercials ("I played a crackhead in an anti-drug commercial") and playing guitar for spare change in New York subway terminals.
He told her relatives she had run off to live in Wakefield with a "crackhead".
The difference today, after the application of such stigmatizing labels as "undeserving poor," "lumpenproletariat," "family pathology," and--the current favorite--an "underclass" consisting entirely of welfare mothers, crackhead dads, and wolfpack kids, is that our culture not only measures everybody by his or her ability to produce wealth but morally condemns anyone who fails to prosper, under the twisted-sister sign of a theology of greed.
But Parfitt - who had once described himself as a "raging crackhead" - was not deemed a priority offender by probation staff and his assigned officer said she was satisfied if he was simply turning up for tests.
Occupying a fragile center stage is Cody (Thomas Jefferson Byrd, in a tremendous perf), a onetime jazz trumpeter, husband and father who has long since abdicated all those roles, spiraling down to his current status as just another "lost" downtown crackhead. He sleeps in a nearby shanty with fellow addicts, spending days shooting the breeze -- and a lot of pipe-dream b.s.
There's the voodoo woman who is prone to sticking dolls with pins; the old woman who is hard of hearing and eats dog food; the philosophical crackhead; the kid who is so obese that his parents put a sign around his neck asking people not to feed him.
If you're a 21-year-old crackhead that's your responsibility, that ain't Frank's.
O'Sullivan, who was described as a 'crackhead' at his trial, finally called paramedics after Mason had died.
You'll see a tech dude on an electric skateboard riding past crackheads or you'll see a crackhead walking around with an electric skateboard that they stole.
You f*** little crackhead. Come over here so I can f*** you up some more.
Washington, Dec 25 (ANI): A guest on popular American television channel Fox News passed indecent comments on President Barack Obama, suggesting "he looks like a skinny ghetto crackhead."
SHE'S been a school bully and a crackhead, but Holly Matthews has no qualms being TV's favourite bad girl.
THIS horrific new close-up of crackhead Pete Doherty proves how years of drug abuse have taken their toll.