Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A drug addict.
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- noun US, slang A
drug addict . - noun UK, slang a
beer enthusiast - noun A home
brewer .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I rarely spoke to him, but when I did I never failed to refer to him as "hophead" or "junky" and to hope that his supplies of snow were coming along all right.
Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961
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The policeman saw a young man with staring eyes coming toward him, remarked "hophead" internally and played with his nightstick a little more.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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Total hophead over here and it sounds appealing (checked Beer Advocate).
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Total hophead over here and it sounds appealing (checked Beer Advocate).
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This pale has the citrusy flower notes to satisfy any hophead, but a slightly richer backbone to balance them out.
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He looked like a hophead, not a Nazi, unless it was possible to be both at the same time, which Skip doubted in a place as lethargic as New Orleans.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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When he doesn't collapse fast enough to suit the boy, who is clearly a hothead as well as a hophead, the kid bashes Don on the head and mugs him.
William Bradley: Mad Men: "Seven Twenty Three" -- HuffPost Review 2009
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Summary: I'm a hophead, I like my IPAs on the thin side with plenty of hoppiness; it really comes down to whether you require balance out of your IPAs or whether you like your IPAs as mild hop-bombs.
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Summary: I'm a hophead, I like my IPAs on the thin side with plenty of hoppiness; it really comes down to whether you require balance out of your IPAs or whether you like your IPAs as mild hop-bombs.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Another classic behavioral trait of your garden variety hophead.
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