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单词 hophead
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hopheadn.

Brit. /ˈhɒphɛd/, U.S. /ˈhɑpˌhɛd/
1. [ < hop n.1 4 + head n.1 13a] An opium-smoker; a drug-addict. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict > addicted to opium
pipe1779
pipe-fiend1889
opiumate1894
hop fiend1898
hophead1911
hoppy1922
1911 C. B. Chrysler White Slavery xi. 89 Opium smokers, ‘hop fiends’ or ‘hop heads’, as they are called, are the fiercest of all the White Slavers.
1915 G. Bronson-Howard God's Man ii. 130 I told Beau to hunt up a skirt before, but you know these hop-heads—always putting things off.
1931 E. Wallace On Spot ii. 21 A hop-head will spill his friends' secrets to buy more hop.
1934 D. Hammett Thin Man xi. 72 ‘What's a junkie?’ she asked. ‘Hop-head.’
1947 E. E. Cummings Let. 21 Sept. (1969) 180 Can someone imagine what any moujik coolie or hophead of any crevice of the Orient would sense, upon receiving such a gospel?
1959 ‘J. Christopher’ Scent of White Poppies ix. 144 Did you ever see a hophead when he's been kept short of what he wants?
1973 H. Nielsen Severed Key vii. 75 I'll mail the letter to that hophead lawyer.
2. [hop n.1 1b.] A drunkard, a tippler. New Zealand slang.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1942 N.Z.E.F. Times (2nd N.Z. Expeditionary Force) 17 Aug. 16/3 (caption) Private Harry Hophead seen leaving Shepheards after a brief visit (very).]
1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams ii. ix. 201 It's Betty that can't hold the liquor... She's a real lily of a hophead.
1952 Landfall 6 208 Among young people greetings like ‘Hophead’..are accepted as flattery.

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† The compound flower of the female hop plant. Obsolete.In quots. ?1711, 1820: a flower of any of several plants bearing some resemblance to that of the hop.
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?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IX. Table 82 Curl-leaved Cape Cats-foot with Hop-heads.
1820 Amer. Farmer 9 June 86/1 A division of clovers into three families—those with loose declining flowers—those with round heads compact as in cow clover; and those with oblong hop heads.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 265 By pressure Hopheads yield a green, light, acrid oil, called Oil of Hops.
1849 First Steps in Gen. Knowl. IV. v. 77 It is produced by little glands.., which are scattered over the green scales of the hop-head, and contain a bitter resin.
1886 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 28 July Another hat..is faced with black velvet and trimmed with pale green hop heads.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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