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Recent Examples of crackheadGeorge Clinton, interviewed in the film, says that the two were crackheads together.—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2025 The New York Post is like having the New York Times summarized for you by a crackhead.—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2024 Pity that crackhead tattooist wasn’t as artistic as the guy at the custom shop.—Henry Everingham, SPIN, 27 Feb. 2024 Founder Greg Harms even referred to his followers as crackheads because of their unquenchable desire to chase virgin snow and rip big lines, and many would have been willing to overnight in igloos for the opportunity to pursue untouched powder with him.—Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2024 Found a dependable crackhead (an oxymoron almost always) in Vancouver, who, in exchange for free dope and low-percentage profit sharing, sold ounces for me.—Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023 Problem is stepping outside to crackheads and fentanyl dealers.
— Geoffrey Cain (@geoffrey_cain) August 28, 2023
San Francisco is possibly America’s most beautiful big city.—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Sep. 2023
Xavier is both when first introduced, but the slacker pothead lives long enough to reveal his chivalrous side.
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Peter Debruge,
Variety,
30 June 2025
The streamer then released the Illana Glazer: Human Magic in December, which delved into Glazer’s awkward high school years and raising a family as a pothead.
Each of the many phishing centers answers to Derek Danforth (Josh Hutcherson), a douchey 28-year-old rich-kid cokehead who tools around his office on a skateboard in extraordinarily ugly outfits (that puke-green suit!) and bad highlights.
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David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Jan. 2024
It was rumored Pacino’s character was a cokehead, something Pacino and Mann have copped to in recent years.
If the recovering addicts’ primary task was to filter out women who wouldn’t qualify to sue—namely, those who didn’t have pelvic mesh or who did but weren’t in pain—Blake’s was to amp up the value of their lawsuits (and attorneys’ fees) by convincing them to have their mesh surgically removed.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
Drug addicts with needles frequently openly camp in front of the hospital, and in early December a security guard suffered serious injuries in a stabbing on the BMC campus.
Sure, the idea of more power always sounds better to confirmed speed freaks such as myself, but simply turning up the wick wouldn’t keep with the RBW ethos—and might throw that balance fully out of whack, in fact.
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Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
Yet in that regard, the instantaneous torque of electric propulsion could still provide enough thrust to satisfy speed freaks driving a production Sollei.
Dispatches is essential to understanding a cluster of journalists who covered the war, notably the enigmatic hippies and stoners in the circle around whom photojournalists Tim Page, Dana Stone and Sean Flynn were the centre of gravity.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Dec. 2025
That’s right, the guy who wrote a movie about two stoners who can’t find their car now wants to ask you about your mother.
James had an even doper moment in store for the kid after the game.
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Chuck Schilken,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
In 1891 Butte, Mont., a reckless young poet and doper named Tom Rourke falls in love with Polly Gillespie, the new wife of the extremely devout captain of the local copper mine.