garbage head
n.— «The may be hard-core heroin addicts or “garbage heads,” youths who take anything to get high, including hashish, cocanine, LSD, heoin, amphetamines and bartituates.» —“Good Head, No Habit” by Lisa Wohl in New York City Washington Post Jan. 7, 1973. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
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