(US, slang) A drug addict.
For the alcoholic there are numerous substitutes: a period of intense diversion and excitement, pressing need for rest, hypnotic sedatives, sleep. Not for the hophead. Sedatives don't touch it; he can't rest; he can't even sleep.
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(British, slang) A beer enthusiast or homebrewer, with emphasis on hoppier types of beer (i.e. brewed with more hops, like IPAs).
Hopheads, they screamed in three-inch headlines, which brought the inevitable police crackdown.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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