crackhead

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Recent Examples of crackhead Hunter Biden spent years being called a crackhead on the internet by Candace Owens. Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2026 George Clinton, interviewed in the film, says that the two were crackheads together. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025 The New York Post is like having the New York Times summarized for you by a crackhead. Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2024 Pity that crackhead tattooist wasn’t as artistic as the guy at the custom shop. Henry Everingham, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024 Founder Greg Harms even referred to his followers as crackheads because of their unquenchable desire to chase virgin snow and rip big lines, and many would have been willing to overnight in igloos for the opportunity to pursue untouched powder with him. Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024 Found a dependable crackhead (an oxymoron almost always) in Vancouver, who, in exchange for free dope and low-percentage profit sharing, sold ounces for me. Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023 Problem is stepping outside to crackheads and fentanyl dealers. — Geoffrey Cain (@geoffrey_cain) August 28, 2023 San Francisco is possibly America’s most beautiful big city. Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Sep. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crackhead
Noun
  • The character begins as a rock music-loving pothead who isn't too interested in what's going on with his family.
    Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • That means there are more 24-hour potheads stumbling around the United States (in California, especially) than ever before.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Biel is a pitiless cokehead who, we’re told, later marries a senator and has four kids.
    Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
  • It was rumored Pacino’s character was a cokehead, something Pacino and Mann have copped to in recent years.
    Stephen Rodrick, Variety, 23 Aug. 2023
Noun
  • But where a female-friendship show like Tuca & Bertie falls into the trap of presenting relatability at the expense of creativity, YOLO introduces a dynamic that is depraved, boozy, druggy, shaggy, and totally amoral.
    Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • But then my druggy yet still aspirationally sober friend at the meeting ran after me.
    Brontez Purnell, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • His job was to collect money owed to that gang, and, after kicking down the doors of dealers and addicts, he got caught and sent upstate.
    Rufus Walker, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2026
  • Lavers programs everything on a DAW like a beatmaker, or a Tetris addict, subordinating and texturizing all these offerings in the slippery swell of drums, samples, and vocals.
    Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Sure, the idea of more power always sounds better to confirmed speed freaks such as myself, but simply turning up the wick wouldn’t keep with the RBW ethos—and might throw that balance fully out of whack, in fact.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Yet in that regard, the instantaneous torque of electric propulsion could still provide enough thrust to satisfy speed freaks driving a production Sollei.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Compared with protein, which lends itself to narratives of growth—more grams, more gains—fibre is a bit of a hard sell, likelier to be espoused by women in sensible shoes than by fitness junkies on Twitch.
    Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • What has changed in recent years, however, is that prediction markets are no longer an obscure pastime enjoyed by political junkies.
    Matt Motta, Fortune, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • In addition to cowriting the script, Marlon Wayans was the film’s resident stoner, Shorty Meeks, who was usually hanging out with friends or, y’know, the killer.
    Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026
  • Monroe Beardsley, Peter Kivy, or your stoner friend can take that one.
    Lily Goldberg, Pitchfork, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • Could Hunter Armstrong beat a pool full of dopers?
    Frederick Dreier, Outside, 4 Mar. 2026

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“Crackhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crackhead. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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