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hophead|ˈhɒphɛd|
1. [f. hop n.1 4 + head n.1 7 e.] An opium-smoker; a drug-addict. slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
1911C. B. Chrysler White Slavery xi. 89 Opium smokers, ‘hop fiends’ or ‘hop heads’, as they are called, are the fiercest of all the White Slavers. 1915G. Bronson-Howard God's Man ii. 130, I told Beau to hunt up a skirt before, but you know these hop-heads—always putting things off. 1931E. Wallace On the Spot ii. 21 A hop-head will spill his friends' secrets to buy more hop. 1934D. Hammett Thin Man xi. 72 ‘What's a junkie?’ she asked. ‘Hop-head.’ 1947E. E. Cummings Let. 21 Sept. (1969) 180 Can someone imagine what any moujik coolie or hophead of any crevice of the Orient would sense, upon receiving such a gospel? 1959J. Christopher Scent of White Poppies ix. 144 Did you ever see a hophead when he's been kept short of what he wants? 1973H. Nielsen Severed Key vii. 75 I'll mail the letter to that hophead lawyer.
2. [hop n.1 1 b.] A drunkard, a tippler. N.Z. slang.
[1942N.Z.E.F. Times 17 Aug. 16/3 (caption) Private Harry Hophead seen leaving Shepheards after a brief visit (very).] 1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams (1963) ii. ix. 166 It's Betty that can't hold the liquor... She's a real lily of a hophead. 1952Landfall VI. 208 Among young people greetings like ‘Hophead’..are accepted as flattery. |