basehead

noun

basehead

noun

Etymology From (free)base + -head.

1

Slang A habitual user of freebase; a crackhead.

African-American Vernacular

  • 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:

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — list of authors.