basehead
English
Etymology
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From (free)base + -head.
Pronunciation
Audio (Australia): (file)
Noun
basehead (plural baseheads)
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) A habitual user of freebase; a crackhead.
- 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106:
- Motherfucker, is you crazy?" I grilled Pimp. "Can't no basehead niggah be depended on to watch nothing!"
- 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 518:
- Every basehead wake up and start do heroin instead?
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- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (head)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷeh₂-
- English terms suffixed with -head (head)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʷem-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kap- (seize)
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *preyH-
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