Definitions

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  • noun derogatory, slang A person who regularly uses heroin.

Etymologies

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smack (“heroin”) +‎ -head

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Examples

  • Huh? If the positions were reversed and for some bizarre reason I found myself in my own time and of my own volition ranting and raving at a some unemployed smackhead who for some other bizarre reason had a “job” to do that involved crowd control, then that “smackhead” repeatedly told me to go away then pushed me away then hit me – then I think i would just take my lumps.

    G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • The opinion of every Tom, Dick and Harry was given undue weight and plenty of air time given to the smackhead who made the allegation.

    G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • "Mind you, I wonder if she was a smackhead like you're revered leader?"

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Mind you, I wonder if she was a smackhead like you're revered leader?

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • "I am not a secret smackhead or anything like that or a toe sucker."

    Inheriting The Crown 2008

  • I read this all the way through in one sitting, so it must have had something going for it, but it's gratuitously disgusting, it uses a pseudo-Scots I never heard spoken in Muirhouse, and the main character's an utterly implausible philosopher-smackhead.

    Archive 2008-09-01 MissPrism 2008

  • Even the Indie gets a nod with ex-editor (and ex-smackhead) Rosie Boycott as well as Peter "I hope Price Harry goes to Auschwitz" Kellner.

    February 06, 2005 Laban 2005

  • Sticking with the music theme of the last post, I;ve just seen Channel 4 News run a piece about Amy Winehouse and whether she should be up for the Mercury Music Prize or not because she's a smackhead.

    Archive 2007-09-01 2007

  • Even the Indie gets a nod with ex-editor (and ex-smackhead) Rosie Boycott as well as Peter "I hope Price Harry goes to Auschwitz" Kellner.

    Archive 2005-02-06 Laban 2005

  • He just inhabits a culture where the rules of behaviour that he'd apply to 'us' - say a middle class person on his own land - don't apply to 'them' - say a smackhead shoplifting mum with 352 previous convictions.

    Yes, It's Sick-Bag Time ! Laban 2005

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