单词 | pipe head |
释义 | pipe headn. 1. The bowl of a tobacco pipe. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > articles or materials used in smoking > [noun] > pipe > bowl of pipe pipe head1745 pipe bowl1766 a1688 J. Bunyan Acceptable Sacrifice in Wks. (1782) I. 357 Take..a great many of the foulest tobacco-pipe-heads you can get, and boil them in milk.] 1745 tr. S. Compagnon in New Gen. Coll. Voy. & Trav. II. xiii. 152/2 The Negros of this Quarter are the most ingenious Makers of Kassots, or Pipe-Heads, in all the Country. 1772 J. R. Forster tr. P. Kalm Trav. N. Amer. II. 361 It is worked into pipe-heads, which often are mounted with silver. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. ii. 21 Large and showy booths..groaned under the accumulated treasures of all countries:..Venetian chains, Neapolitan coral, and Vienna pipeheads. 1855 H. W. Longfellow Hiawatha i. 12 From the red stone of the quarry With his hand he broke a fragment, Moulded it into a pipe-head. 1937 J. E. Lips Savage Hits Back 149 (caption) The pipe-head is carved with the features of a European..while on the smooth stem is seated a small attached figure. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 25 Aug. vi. 1/3 (caption) Steatite ceremonial pipe head is part of an exhibit at Bowers Museum through Sept. 20. 2. The top of a water pipe. ΚΠ 1846 Quart. Rev. Sept. 437 From roof, and wall, and pier protrude innumerable grotesque pipe-heads—demons, dragons, monkeys, monstrosities. 1905 Athenæum 29 Apr. 534/1 The fronts of pipe-heads and the pipe ears were often heraldically treated. 1993 Chicago Tribune 29 Jan. i. 1/4 The dump site is marked only by the pipe heads of water test wells and a portable toilet booth. 3. U.S. slang. = crackhead n. at crack n. Additions 21. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict > addicted to cocaine cocainist1904 snow-bird1914 cokey1922 snifter1925 basehead1985 pipe head1985 crackhead1986 rock-head1987 1985 United Press Internat. Newswire (Nexis) 14 Aug. They say I'm a pipe-head, freebasing all the time, out of shape. 1992 N. Stephenson Snow Crash xiii. 98 They might be crack vials, but the caps are still on them, and pipeheads wouldn't be so fastidious as to replace the lid on an empty vial. 2001 D. Lehane Mystic River 254 Hired it out to some pipehead for a couple of rocks and a Bic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmaspipe head ΚΠ c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica v. 375 At the reuerence of Hercules when he was come vnto hys hous, he brake vppe this pipe-hede. < n.1745 as lemmas |
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