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CRACKHEAD
Definition of CRACKHEAD
noun
A person who is addicted to or regularly uses crack cocaine.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From crack + -head. First sense appears c. 1978. Second sense appears c. 1977 in Best Canadian Stories.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, CRACKHEAD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CRACKHEAD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 139, 6 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 5 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRACKHEAD starts with C and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AACCDEHKR - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and A appear more than once.
Could you have found CRACKHEAD?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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