cokehead

English

Alternative forms

• coke head

Etymology

Etymology tree

Aymarader.

Quechua kukabor.

Aymara kukabor.

Spanish cocabor.

English coca

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnusder.

Old French -inbor.

Middle English -in

English -ine

English cocaineclip.

English coke

substratebor.?

Proto-Indo-European *kap-?

Proto-Indo-European *kap-

Proto-Indo-European *káput

Proto-Germanic *haubudą

Old English hēafod

Middle English heed

English headder.

English -head

English cokehead

From coke + -head.

Pronunciation

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Noun

cokehead (plural cokeheads)

1. (slang, derogatory) 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.

   • 2024 January 13, James Bickerton, “Who Is Gonzalo Lira? Pro-Putin American Expat Dies in Ukrainian Jail”, in Newsweek‎^[1], 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."

Related terms

• coked out
• coked up
• coke whore

Translations

cocaine addict — see cocaine addict,‎ cocainomaniac