hophead

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English

Etymology

hop +‎ -head

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Noun

hophead (plural hopheads)

  1. (US, slang) A drug addict.
    • 1939, Walton Hall Smith, Ferdinand Christian Helwig, Liquor, the Servant of Man, page 193:
      For the alcoholic there are numerous substitutes: a period of intense diversion and excitement, pressing need for rest, hypnotic sedatives, sleep. Not for the hophead. Sedatives don't touch it; he can't rest; he can't even sleep.
    • 1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 5, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 107:
      “Oed,” looking at her puzzled, “you don't get addicted. It's not like you're some hophead. You take it because it's good. […]
    • 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, Knopf:
      Why should we all go around on tiptoe forever pretending the kid's not a hophead?
  2. (British, slang) A beer enthusiast or homebrewer.

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