How to Use pothead in a Sentence

pothead

noun

• And Tommy doesn’t just play a pothead on the big screen.
  — Eric Mercado, Los Angeles Magazine, 25 May 2018
• The price isn’t random: The number 420 is used as a code by potheads.
  — Craig Giammona, Bloomberg.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• That doesn’t mean toking up in front of them — from both the parenting and pothead perspectives, there are reasons that might be a bad idea.
  — Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2018
• When not cruising the web with a cap on and shadows hiding his face, Frankie hangs out with macho, aimless potheads in and around the Coney Island boardwalk.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2017
• But really, the best way to destroy the stereotypical image of a pothead is to replace it with an image that looks more like you and me.
  — Genetta M. Adams, The Root, 11 Dec. 2017
• Since then, MacGyver-ish tobacco smokers and potheads have done extensive research on secret spots to light up in the park.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• For better or worse, Kevin Smith is known today as one of Hollywood’s most prominent potheads.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• There is an internet urban legend that North Korea is a pothead paradise and maybe even the next Amsterdam of pot tourism.
  — Eric Talmadge, The Seattle Times, 13 June 2017
• To determine whether that record is precise enough to calculate how much Maryjane someone has smoked, the German chemists took hair samples from 12 male potheads and 10 of their straightedge peers.
  — Aaron Rowe, WIRED, 18 July 2007
• Harris Dickinson stars as Frankie, who ambles around the beaches of Coney Island, hanging out with potheads and pickpockets, looking for a hookup and a greater purpose.
  — Andrew R. Chow, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2017
• My previous friendships had only helped me turn myself into a pothead.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Apr. 2018
• Studies in rats tend to use much higher doses of THC than even a committed pothead would absorb, and rodent adolescence is just a couple of weeks long—nothing like ours.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2017
• Greer seethes after her pothead parents don’t fill out her Yale financial-aid form correctly, thus consigning her to non-Ivy exile.
  — Clare McHugh, Time, 5 Apr. 2018
• Smart-girl Greer Kadetsky got into Yale, but has been relegated to a lowly state school when her pothead parents neglect to return a crucial financial aid form.
  — Patty Rhule, USA TODAY, 2 Apr. 2018
• My tenure as a podhead has sustained and outlasted two pregnancies, two career shifts, and a recent foray into being a pothead (edibles, to help me sleep).
  — Lauren Mechling, Vogue, 27 May 2019
• These women aren't potheads looking for a quick high, but professionals who want a unique, upscale, communal experience.
  — Alix Strauss, Marie Claire, 20 Apr. 2017
• The redemption concerns a feckless pothead (Miles Teller) whose pregnant girlfriend has left him because of his indigence and dissolution.
  — Andy Webster, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
• The potheads at the bottom of the corporate ladder start screwing things up for everybody, while upper management (Tony Goldwyn, abetted by some twisted minions) takes the homicidal initiative.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2017
• But this Friday he will be joined by tokers, potheads and dope fiends across the nation (especially folks in Denver) celebrating another 4/20 — the pot holiday with hazy origins that seems to get more popular every year.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2018
• That distinction in entertainment is an important one, given that pop culture’s first significant introduction to the drug was the 1936 antipot propaganda film Reefer Madness, which literally depicted potheads as murderers and mental patients.
  — Nick Vadala, Philly.com, 19 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024