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basehead

basehead noun: a habitual user of freebase; a crackhead.

Noun

basehead (plural baseheads)

  1. (slang, African-American Vernacular) A habitual user of freebase; a crackhead.
    • Motherfucker, is you crazy?" I grilled Pimp. "Can't no basehead niggah be depended on to watch nothing!"2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106
    • Every basehead wake up and start do heroin instead?2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 518

Forms of basehead

pluralbaseheads

Origin of basehead

From (free)base + -head.

Questions about basehead

What does basehead mean?
Basehead means a habitual user of freebase; a crackhead.
What part of speech is basehead?
Basehead is a noun.
What is the plural of basehead?
The plural of basehead is baseheads.

Words near basehead in the dictionary

  1. Baseej
  2. baseflow
  3. baseflows
  4. basefluid
  5. basefluids
  6. basehead
  7. baseheads
  8. basehearted
  9. baseis
  10. Basel
  11. Basel problem

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