Meaning of scaghead | Babel Free

Definitions

A heroin user.

British, slang

Examples

“The Breeding Ground website message board has been a-buzz with accusations, counter-accusations & general slanging after the previous live encounter. Hooper are scagheads & Pocket Venus are crap tradesmen. For the internet lurker its been an entertaining read & great publicity for the bands.”

“she is young and i'm sure when she was at school there was a lot of education on drugs (my daughters been having it in yr 7!!) They use scare mongering tactics of showing young pretty girls turning into toothless scagheads!”

“Newspaper readers will weep over the death of a pop idol through drugs; a politician will be praised for his ‘brave struggle’ against alcohol. In popular culture – films, books and television – we have come to expect our flawed heroes often to have an addiction problem as one of their flaws, a lonewolf cop bucking the rules and knocking back malt whisky while meditating on a case, a singer in rehab, a public figure making public penance. Less favourably are seen the ‘scagheads’, the ‘junkies’, the street addicts, the working class addicts. Although victims all their lives of unequal and unjust social conditions, turning to drugs or drink or gambling to escape if only for a moment, it is they who are most harshly blamed and despised for their lack of responsibility – while those with a lifetime of advantages are treated with adulation and sympathy.”

“Imagine having London dungeons but, Manchester edition! Scagheads popping out on you in the dark, the lot!”

“It's to stop skagheads and prostitution. As well as cutting cost on paying for maintenance and cleaning”

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