What's the difference between pothead and pothole?

Pothead


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For the uninitiated, the place to start is their 1978 debut movie, Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke , which follows the potheads on a road trip through California that winds up with them being deported to Mexico.
  • (2) Siddiqi confirms that the young Obama, a high school pothead, "was lighthearted and fun-loving for the first half of our cohabitation and grew serious later".
  • (3) Suggested by SirRoystenMerchant This 90s stoner comedy, the brainchild of rapper Ice Cube, stars Chris Tucker as Smokey, a pothead who sells (or, in reality, smokes) weed on behalf of Big Worm, the local dealer.
  • (4) There are a lot of displaced Californians here who have left their state going to the potheads and down the toilet, and now they want to do the same here."
  • (5) Doc Sportello, the pothead PI played by Joaquin Phoenix, scrawls: “Paranoia alert” instead of sensible notes; turtles up on the pavement to avoid his regular LAPD beating; body-swerves like Ace Ventura away from annoyingly secretive sanatorium attendants.
  • (6) Photograph: Benjamin Rasmussen for the Guardian He may be Denver's most famous pothead, but William Breathes isn't his real name.
  • (7) We’re active and athletic, not some lazy potheads lying on a sofa.” Some former Kushtowners have graduated to sponsorship deals and professional racing, notably Edgar Juarez, AKA Willo, a former gang member who served time in jail and is now a celebrity for his racing exploits .
  • (8) He lived in Antigua, a hippy pothead with a zest for life who was known as the island's first white Rastafarian.
  • (9) Hearing the drumbeat of the pro-marijuana lobby, you'd be excused if you believed the typical Jamaican was a Rastafarian pothead lazing on the beach amid the soporific sound of Bob Marley's One Love.
  • (10) We’re active and athletic, not some lazy potheads lying on a sofa Kushtown co-founder Hansel Echevarria Facebook Twitter Pinterest Racers and couriers chat ahead of the Hope St event.
  • (11) Butler's childhood, though, was defined to a degree by the family's move from Truckee in northern California – "a community of creative potheads" – to Houston, which he describes as "a pretty big culture shock".
  • (12) After dismissal, he and his pothead buddies tramped a mile to the west gate to toke up.
  • (13) Wearing socks festooned with blue marijuana leaves, he's as evangelical as the next pothead, but with articulacy, ethics and punctuation to impress any of his journalist peers.

Pothole


Definition:

  • (n.) A circular hole formed in the rocky beds of rivers by the grinding action of stones or gravel whirled round by the water in what was at first a natural depression of the rock.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The George Bush campaign juggernaut hit the first serious pothole of its cash-fuelled drive to the presidency yesterday, as the Texas governor tried in vain to fend off questions about whether he had used cocaine as a young man.
  • (2) The Washington DC transportation department put out a tweet saying that the coming apocalypse would have an impact on road maintenance: "Sorry, we will no longer be able to fill your potholes after Saturday."
  • (3) They once journeyed six hours out of sprawling Mexico City to deliver an order, using specially designed backpacks that protect the food from the city’s potholed streets.
  • (4) The heat is getting oppressive but we stay alert and try to move with the flow, sticking to the left as much as possible and keeping an eye out for potholes and drain covers whose grilles face the direction of travel – lying in wait to trap unwary bike tyres.
  • (5) On an otherwise ordinary-looking, potholed street in the district of Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria , is a stone encrusted gate with personalised initials.
  • (6) After eight hours of rallying, Kuti was dismissive of accepting anything short of a full governmental U-turn as he settled down to a spliff in his home, a rambling two-storey affair down a potholed road.
  • (7) A potholed gravel road runs to a campsite at the mouth of the Mattole river and from there you can wander south down the coast for 25 miles before you come to the next road, at Shelter Cove.
  • (8) It’s dawn and it’s sub-zero and it’s a potholed car park in Vilnius, eastern Lithuania, and a hobbit is preparing to tell the world about the Holocaust.
  • (9) The number 38 bus from Bury had skidded out of control on an icy pothole and crushed her against the wall of the Job Centre.
  • (10) I damaged my car and tyre after hitting a pothole in the dark.
  • (11) Weah embraces the familiar imagery of African nobility - the lion - and walks with a clear sense of self-worth through the smoking, potholed streets of Monrovia.
  • (12) Those potholes, cracks and poor surfaces add up to a $4.3tn investment deficit, according to the ASCE.
  • (13) Temperatures climb above 40C even before the sun has hit the pitted, potholed surface of the streets through which he pushes his vegetable barrow day after day.
  • (14) Walking through the dismal Leipzig suburbs feels like being transported back 20 years: there are potholes, weeds growing through the tarmac, dozens of uniform grey apartment blocks.
  • (15) Only 2% of the country's roads are paved, and these are riddled with potholes.
  • (16) The road falls and rises to the horizon like a highway across the American midwest, except that the surface is brick-red mud and stones and potholes.
  • (17) The hall where it was held is only a stone’s throw from Jaywick , the jumble of former holiday chalets and potholed streets that is reckoned to be the poorest council ward in England: on the face of it, a symbol of the kind of deep social problems that tend to be synonymous with political apathy.
  • (18) We even have an app to report potholes in the city, which in one month registered more than 2,000.
  • (19) If you can show the council was aware of a dangerous pothole, and yet several weeks later you drove into it and damaged your car, you have a claim.
  • (20) All very idealistic except for the potholes, lorries and dust!

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