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hophead noun- an opium addict, or, less precisely and more commonly, a user of marijuana or other drug US, 1901
- Dope fiends are full of nice little rules and regulations like that; Emily Post could write a book just on hophead etiquette. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 99, 1946
- “He’s becoming a regular hophead,” Benny said. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 99, 1947
- If I was one of them hop-heads I’d go get a sniff and a rod and blow your goddamn guts out. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 38, 1950
- Tell a hophead he shouldn’t take dope. — Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside, p. 126, 1952
- It is, of course, thoroughly unfair to blame Parker for all the young hopheads who came along in his wake. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 285, 1956
- Some knew him as a man, others thought he was a hophead Sister. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 49, 1957
- I always knew she was a hop-hop-head with no more morals than a hound-bitch in heat. — Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, p. 95, 1958
- HOP HEAD: Say now–this one’s a real sassy lassie. PAT: You’re drunk. HOP HEAD: Drunk? [Giggles] Yeah, that’s it–drunk. Man, what a cube. — William Bast, The Myth Makers [Six Granada Plays], p. 176, 1958
- Chenault had the look of a hophead, ready to turn on. — Hunter S. Thompson, Songs of the Doomed, p. 96, 1962
- A junkie, a dope addict, a hop-head, a mainliner–a dope fiend! — James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie, p. 45, 1964
- New Mexico, man, I finally found him, right where every hophead in the country figured he’d be. — Richard Farina, Been Down So Long, p. 60, 1966
- But you went hophead and blew the bread / Now you’re talking that stable shit. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 86, 1976
- Goddamn–this looks like an opium den. You guys hopheads? — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimsom, p. 100, 1980
- a heavy drinker AUSTRALIA, 1957
- I was right on the point of going across and flattening hophead there and then but I didn’t want to end in jail or get my face messed round till I’d seen you. — Criena Rohan, Down by the Dockside, p. 228, 1963
- in horse racing, a horse that only performs well when under the influence of a stimulant US
- — Dan Parker, The ABC of Horse Racing, p. 146, 1947
- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 36, 1951
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