🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

नशेड़ी

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nashēḍī

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Dopehead/ˈdoʊp.hɛd/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15000 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"वह स्कूल में नशेड़ी के रूप में जाना जाता था।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who habitually uses drugs, especially marijuana or other narcotics.

    "He was known as a dopehead in high school, often skipping classes to smoke."
  2. 2

    A derogatory term for someone perceived as being addicted to drugs.

    "The community was concerned about the rising number of dopeheads in the neighborhood."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'dopehead' emerged in the mid-20th century in American English, combining 'dope', a slang term for drugs, particularly narcotics, and 'head', a colloquial suffix denoting a person associated with a particular activity or substance. It reflects the cultural context of drug use and counterculture during that era.

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