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basehead en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From (free)base + -head.

Meanings

1. (qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) 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:

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