Definition of "crackhead" [crackhead]

• Slang A heavy user of crack cocaine. (noun)

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• "This week we're looking at that moon-faced chap from dullrock non-band Keane, who got called a crackhead live on stage the other day."
• "Somehow Will figured that only the crackhead is the homosexual."
• "Many years later, my pal Donald sat in a cabin in Newport, Minnesota, staring into a video camera I had brought and recalling the crackhead version of me: 'As good friends as we were, as much as I loved you, you weren't you."