" hopheads "

 [ "Hophead" ]

1: A drug user or addict. Hophead is an umbrella term for users of everything from cocaine to marijuana (or 'tea' - which is a jazz era term, not one that originated with the Beats as is erroneously noted elsewhere @ the Urban Dictionary) to benzedrine (aka 'bennies'/amphetamine). The term sprang from the early jazz scene in 1920's/30's America.

  * e.g.,  ... Mezz Mezzrow, an early marijuana dealer, smoked his own product and was himself a hophead. 

 [ "Hophead" ]

2: Decades later, beer aficionados appropriated the term to refer to themselves (with a wry tip of the hat to it's original meaning).

 [ "hophead" ]

1: Early 1900s term for a cocaine addict. Used frequently in the 1935 drug propaganda film "Cocaine Fiends"

  * e.g.,  ... "I gotta have dope. I'm a hophead!" 

 [ "hophead" ]

1: A lover of all beers hoppy. A hophead espouses the merits of India Pale Ales, Russian Imperial Stouts, and other highly hopped beers. A hophead may even chew fresh hops in an attempt to quench his insatiable desire for hops. A hophead would sooner suffer castration than drink the typical BMC (Bud /Miller/Coors) swill.

  * e.g.,  ... <Beer Drinker #1> Wow, I just tried Three Floyds' Dreadnaught Imperial IPA. It's a hop orgasm in a bottle. 

 [ "hophead" ]

1: (noun)a smoker of marijuana

  * e.g.,  ... Wow, my two roommates are a couple of hopheads. They smoke all the time. 

 [ "hophead's prayer" ]

1: prayer said to the god of intox that good 'product' will come around!

  * e.g.,  ... big bull said a hophead's prayer before he went to sleep