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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pothead

also pot-head "chronic marijuana user," 1967, from pot (n.2) + head (n.). Earlier it meant "stupid person" (1530s), from pot (n.1).

Wiktionary
pothead

n. 1 (context derogatory slang English) A person who smokes cannabis frequently, to excess. 2 A cannabis consumer

WordNet
pothead

n. someone who smokes marijuana habitually

Wikipedia
Pothead

A pothead is a type of insulated electrical terminal used for transitioning between overhead line and underground high voltage cable or for connecting overhead wiring to equipment like transformers. Its name comes from the process of potting or encapsulation of the conductors inside the terminal's insulating bushing.

Usage examples of "pothead".

The pothead swung the wheel hard to the right as the eighteen-wheeler forced him off the road and onto the shoulder.

Using their best Cheech and Chong voices, my classmates repeated a string of bad pothead jokes.

This was my friendly approach, designed to throw drunken, pothead Mrs.

For two and a half years, you lived with a pothead, all the while hoping you could change her.

She sat in the toolshed with a flashlight, looking at photos of me and smoking more grass than even the potheads at school could suck down.

For example, unlike what all the potheads said, life on earth is not infinite.

The Suttons and a few English teachers combined to make me care just enough—if you didn't point it out to me—not to become a druggie or a pothead or spend the free periods outside in the smoking lounge hiding doobies in my boots.

He was the youngest drug addict I've dealt with well, not the youngest, if you count the potheads, but the worst for this age bracket.

He was the youngest drug addict I've dealt with-well, not the youngest, if you count the potheads, but the worst for this age bracket.

The skipper of a local dragger later told me he had met a small group of Killer Whales close to the harbour channel on the day the Potheads entered.

We are now seriously threatening the sur vival even of those relatively little baleen whales, the Minkes and the Brydes (now being actively hunted by catchers from Norway), as well as the White Whales^Be luga) and the Potheads (Pilot Whale).