Gawker vs NYT Crossword Editor vs reader

[Victor Steinbok]

What does that do to "pothead", "dope-head", "coke-head", "shit-head"?

     VS-)

On 1/10/2012 5:40 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
> This also has a nice use of "head" meaning aficionado: "hip-hop head." I think that use of "head" has been discussed on this list before.
>
> When I recently asked a friend who is visiting his parents in Alaska whether he was having fun on a snow machine, he responded: "Ripping up the hills on skis is more like it, my parents are very anti-motorhead."
>
> BB

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