Hoghead:
1. A large bundle of cured tobacco which is wrapped in burlap sheet on the farm and taken to the tobacco market. This large bundle usually weights in excess of 250lbs.
2. A bucolic person with a large head; This person's head is larger than the average person and is due to genetics or a large amount of hair on the head. This person may be a "redneck"
1. That hoghead of tobacco should bring about $800.00 at the tobacco market.
2. Man, that dude Rick is a hoghead; he cant find a hat to fit his big head, so maybe he can just wear the box the hat came in!
A large cask for liquids, usually containing liquor; a liquid
measure containing 63 old wine-gallons (equal to 52 imperial gallons).
Abbreviated hhd.
This content was prescribed by a statute of 1423: "The London hogshead of beer contained 54 gallons, that of ale 48 gallons; elsewhere the hogshead of ale or beer contained 51 gallons."
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.
Decades later, beer aficionados appropriated the term to refer to themselves (with a wry tip of the hat to it's original meaning).
Mezz Mezzrow, an early marijuanadealer, smoked his own product and was himself a hophead.