Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A drug addict.
Wiktionary
- n. US, slang A drug addict.
- n. UK, slang a beer enthusiast
- n. A home brewer.
Etymologies
- hop + -head (Wiktionary)
- hop2 + head. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I rarely spoke to him, but when I did I never failed to refer to him as "hophead" or "junky" and to hope that his supplies of snow were coming along all right.”
“The policeman saw a young man with staring eyes coming toward him, remarked "hophead" internally and played with his nightstick a little more.”
“This pale has the citrusy flower notes to satisfy any hophead, but a slightly richer backbone to balance them out.”
“Total hophead over here and it sounds appealing (checked Beer Advocate).”
“He looked like a hophead, not a Nazi, unless it was possible to be both at the same time, which Skip doubted in a place as lethargic as New Orleans.”
“Another classic behavioral trait of your garden variety hophead.”
“When he doesn't collapse fast enough to suit the boy, who is clearly a hothead as well as a hophead, the kid bashes Don on the head and mugs him.”
William Bradley: Mad Men: "Seven Twenty Three" -- HuffPost Review
“Summary: I'm a hophead, I like my IPAs on the thin side with plenty of hoppiness; it really comes down to whether you require balance out of your IPAs or whether you like your IPAs as mild hop-bombs.”
“Translated by a hophead, that comes out: "There's truth in wine, but beer drinkers have more fun.”
“You are a hopeless, holess, hophead homey & a horny, horned toad, horned owl to hoot!”
Obama's big night: "We won North, we won South, we won in between."
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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