different between heroin vs dopehead

English

Etymology

Since the 1890s, from German Heroin, originally a trademark said to derive from Ancient Greek ???? (h?r?s, “hero”) (due to the feelings of power and exaltation while under the influence of the drug) and the suffix -in (“-ine”). Alternatively explained as reference to the heroic school of medicine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??o?.?n/
• Homophone: heroine
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

heroin (countable and uncountable, plural heroins)

1. A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world. [from late 19th century]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:heroin

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     The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.

Synonyms

• (chemical names): diacetylmorphine, diamorphine
• (street names): Big H, boy, brown, bujj, dope, junk, H, horse, Ron, shit, skag, smack, train, yam yam

Translations

Further reading

• heroin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• Horine, hieron, on hire

Czech

Noun

heroin m

1. heroin

Synonyms

• herák

Further reading

• heroin in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• heroin in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -in

Noun

heroin c or n (singular definite heroinen or heroinet, uncountable)

1. heroin

Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eroin

Noun

heroin

1. Instructive plural form of hera.

Anagrams

• hieron

Japanese

Romanization

heroin

1. R?maji transcription of ????

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xer?i?n/
• Hyphenation: he?ro?in

Noun

herò?n m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. heroin

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From German Heroin.

Noun

heroin n

1. heroin

Declension

English

Etymology

dope (“drugs”) +? -head

Noun

dopehead (plural dopeheads)

1. (derogatory) A person who frequently uses illicit, narcotic, or psychoactive drugs and has a drug addiction.

Translations