basehead

English

Etymology

(free)base +‎ -head

Pronunciation

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Noun

basehead (plural baseheads)

1. (US, 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?