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dopefiend

dopefiend is the alternative form of dope fiend.

Meaning of dope fiend

Noun

dope fiend (plural dope fiends)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A person who abuses drugs.
    • Of course you know how prohibition works in many places and how the law is beaten. The dope fiends seem to be doing the same thing with this law.1914, Arthur B[enjamin] Reeve, “The Toxin of Death”, in The Dream Doctor (The Craig Kennedy Series), New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 163

Forms of dopefiend

pluraldopefiends

Questions about dopefiend

What is dopefiend the alternative form of?
Dopefiend is the alternative form of dope fiend.

Words near dopefiend in the dictionary

  1. doped
  2. doped off
  3. doped out
  4. doped up
  5. dopeface
  6. dopefiend
  7. dopefiends
  8. dopehead
  9. dopeheads
  10. dopeless
  11. dopeman

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