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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hophead

"opium addict," 1911, from hop (n.2) + head (n.) in the drug sense.

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hophead

n. 1 (context US slang English) A drug addict. 2 (context British slang English) a beer enthusiast 3 A home brewer.

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Hophead

Hophead may mean

  • Someone who appreciates highly hopped beer. The term is used in the names of beers and brew clubs.
  • Pejorative slang, an alcoholic whose drink of choice is beer
  • An early 1900s American slang term for a user of Opium
  • A beer by Dark Star Brewery

Usage examples of "hophead".

Lot of ex-beatniks and hopheads, hodads, hotrodders, dropouts, runaway juvies, and Lord Buckley fans.

I see many more winos and rumdums and hopheads on the street than I remember, and furthermore there is garbage all over the place in big piles.

I have no desire to become an object of attention to the local hopheads and amateur second-storey men, with their bloodshot eyes and twitchy fingers.

They took their clothes off while three or four hopheads played some music.

We don't know who was dealing with those posse hopheads in the warehouse, or how your deal went wrong, or why you were using themsmuggling biohazards, whatever the hell you were doing.

We don't know who was dealing with those posse hopheads in the warehouse, or how your deal went wrong, or why you were using them-smuggling biohazards, whatever the hell you were doing.

I test the shit with a chem kit I stole from the crime lab--no poor hophead is going to croak from a Mickey Cohen bindle bootjacked by Turner "Buzz" Meeks.

The place was Hophead Central: spics crapped out on mattresses, spics geezing up, spics scrounging dirty needles off the floor.

I seen loads of hopheads leavin' his dump like they was on cloud nine.

He called her a flatchested hophead and said that she was lying, because he had been taking a bath every day.

Buzz drove up to the gate thinking of all the referrals he’d given Lux: RKO juicers and hopheads spared jail jolts and bum publicity because Dr.

She looked like a hophead who'd spent her best years on cloud nine and would never adjust to life on earth.

Par for the stag-book course--but the posers weren't glassy-eyed hopheads, they were good-looking, well-built young kids--nude, costumed: Elizabethan garb, Jap kimonos.

He must have freaked when he saw all the blood, `cause he left some of the ritziest stereo equipment this side of heaven, plus enough silverware to blind your average hophead.