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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
crackhead
noun
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▪ Some crackheads had pissed on it.
▪ There were rows of streetlights knocked out by crackheads so they could do their thing in private.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
crackhead

slang, "crack cocaine addict," by 1986, from crack (n.) in the drug slang sense + head (n.). In earlier slang, crack-headed meant "crazy" (1796), from the literal sense of crack.

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crackhead

n. (context pejorative slang English) A person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine.

Usage examples of "crackhead".

One by one they had left home rather than give up their addiction, and now shared an apartment in a complex inhabited by cokeheads, crackheads, winos, cockroaches, and rats.

Drunks sit together, Cokeheads sit together, Crackheads sit together, Junkies sit together, Pillpoppers sit together.

Just like crackheads piping up in the halls and rats scrambling in the walls and cockroaches crawling on your face and eating the spit off your lips when you was sleeping.

Two shrews came across it at the same time and fought, squeaking and shrilling and single-minded, like two crackheads quarrelling over a dime bag.

We heard the usual complaints about the drug pushers, the zombielike crackheads, the prossies who work on Eighth Street, the growing number of gangbangers.

Drunks sit togethe r , Cokeheads sit together, Crackheads sit together, Junkies sit together, P illpoppers sit together.

So I wouldn't bounce dumb onion-head Horace's onion head off the wall a hundred times for calling Mama a crackhead ho, for calling me ``crack baby''.

I call Baldor and start screaming right away: 'What kind of glue-sniffing, crackhead mesomorphs you got working for you?