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  • noun pejorative A person who regularly uses heroin.

Etymologies

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From dope ("marijuana") + -head.

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Examples

  • We might, for issues of character are important, you may think, also recall that not so long ago she was a dopehead, routinely breaking the Misuse of Drugs Act. What does it tell you about the Home Secretary.

    Home is where the heart is, Home Secretary 2009

  • We might, for issues of character are important, you may think, also recall that not so long ago she was a dopehead, routinely breaking the Misuse of Drugs Act. What does it tell you about the Home Secretary.

    Archive 2009-02-08 2009

  • Why bother campaigning to legalise drugs when you could use your own airline to fly self-absorbed dopehead depressives out to Africa to gawp at poor people?

    The camera does sometimes lie. Ask a female politician | Barbara Ellen 2012

  • Jacqui Smith: unconvicted dopehead over-promoted to the Home Office plans doomed genuflexion to the

    Another Knee Jerk On The Road To Oblivion 2008

  • There's a daughter, her misbegotten marriage to a dopehead musician over, now returned to the parental home with her two upset teenage children.

    You Can Go Home Again Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010

  • Jacqui Smith: unconvicted dopehead over-promoted to the Home Office plans doomed genuflexion to the

    Archive 2008-06-22 2008

  • There's a daughter, her misbegotten marriage to a dopehead musician over, now returned to the parental home with her two upset teenage children.

    You Can Go Home Again Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010

  • There's a daughter, her misbegotten marriage to a dopehead musician over, now returned to the parental home with her two upset teenage children.

    You Can Go Home Again Dorothy Rabinowitz 2010

  • Among other things the pharmacist was accused of using excessive force to which he replied that he meant to kill the dopehead and acted in such a way to be successful.

    Amateur Hour 2008

  • Nor, when that same candidate ran was there any demand for proof that he actually served in the National Guard and no verdict of any kind rendered when it was clear that there was no evidence of any kind that Bush was anything other than a draft dodging dopehead, ne'er do well loser all his life.

    Edwards Campaign: Times Refused To Talk To Beneficiaries Of His Anti-Poverty Programs 2009

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