crackheads

Rock cocaine addicts

Crackheads are people addicted to crack cocaine.

The term is derogatory, emphasizing the desperation and erratic behavior associated with addiction: Crackheads were hanging around the corner store.

Extended loosely to mean anyone acting crazy or making irrational decisions: You paid how much? What a crackhead.

slang

tweakers

Methamphetamine abusers

dopers · cokeheads · speedfreaks · burnouts · zombies · users · addicts · heads · smokers · rockstars

addiction

cocaine

Addictive stimulant narcotic

withdrawal · overdose · relapse · craving · tolerance · detox · rehabilitation · recovery · intervention · substance

streetlife

homeless

Without a dwelling

traphouse · poverty · squalor · derelict · transient · begging · survival · disheveled · desperate · penniless

Categories
Opposites
sobriety/substance use status

crackheadsteetotalers

Those avoiding all alcohol

abstainers · recovering addicts · non-users

social standing/respectability

crackheadspillars of the community

Respected, influential local figures

the elite · squares · country club members · professionals · suburbanites

Family

crackhead

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG-13