Etymology

From coke +‎ -headCategory:English terms suffixed with -head#COKEHEAD.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cokehead (plural cokeheads)Category:English lemmas#COKEHEADCategory:English nouns#COKEHEADCategory:English countable nouns#COKEHEADCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#COKEHEADCategory:Pages with entries#COKEHEADCategory:Pages with 1 entry#COKEHEAD

1. (slangCategory:English slang#COKEHEAD, derogatoryCategory:English derogatory terms#COKEHEAD) A cocaine addict.

   Synonyms: cocainist (dated), cocainomaniac (dated)

   Hypernyms: druggie, drughead, junkhead, junkie, user, abuser (all derogatory); see also Thesaurus:addict

   Coordinate terms: crackhead, methhead, pillhead, pothead (all derogatory)

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     […] she knew that a closeted cokehead would always be in the WC.

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   • 2024 January 13, James Bickerton, “Who Is Gonzalo Lira? Pro-Putin American Expat Dies in Ukrainian Jail”, in Newsweek‎, archived from the original on 28 August 2024:

     Lira baselessly branded Ukraine's leader a "cokehead," and described the Russian operation as "one of the most brilliant invasions in military history."

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