Citations:wastoid

Noun: "a person with a drug or alcohol addiction"

 * 1985 — John Hughes, The Breakfast Club, 00:54:35:
 * Andrew Clark: Yo, wastoid. You're not gonna blaze up in here.


 * 1989 — Colman McCarthy, "A Father's Favorite Rocker", The Washington Post, 8 July 1989:
 * For myself, I learned much from Natalie Merchant - about the craft of songwriting, about the need to look beyond the stereotype of rock stars as dope-crazed wastoids.
 * 1997 — Lauri Githens, "Rebel Without a Pause", The Buffalo News, 12 January 1997:
 * First, a contract as one of Calvin Klein's wastoid-looking cK be cologne models, whose incessant ads have dotted hip magazine gatefolds and MTV for months.
 * 1999 — Mike Males, "Tobacco Wins Big in Teen Smoking War", Newsday, 11 April 1999:
 * Despite official and media-scare crusades to depict the Everyteen as a wastoid, kids are shunning the killer hard drugs such as heroin and crack that dispatch 10000 of their parents' generation to morgues and a quarter-million to hospital emergency rooms every year.
 * 2001 — Mark Jude Poirier, Goats, Hyperion (2001), ISBN 9780786866809:
 * "Maybe," Goat Man said. "Or maybe he's a rich wastoid with the best weed on the East Coast."
 * 2001 — Cate Tiernan, Blood Witch, Speak (2001), ISBN 9781101176603, page 42:
 * I wondered if Bree was enjoying hanging out with her new crowd… people she had once referred to as stoners, wastoids.
 * 2003 — Troy Patterson, "Everyone's Burning", Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2003:
 * The story may be about Leon Koch, a 23-year-old wastoid getting numb on booze, coke, and then some more booze
 * 2004 — Steven Wishnia, "Marijuana Will Never Be Legal as Long as Most Pot-Smokers Are Apathetic Airheads", in Under the Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs (ed. Preston Peet), The Disinformation Company (2004), ISBN 1932857001, page 147:
 * As a way to persuade non-stoners — whose biggest fears about legalizing pot are that their kids would become burnouts and it would lead to a nation of indolent wastoids — it's disastrous.
 * 2004 — Joe Neumaier, "Naomi Watts, '21' And Counting", New York Daily News, 23 February 2004:
 * Audiences first got a sense of Watts in David Lynch's 2001 "Mulholland Drive," in which she played a woman who was both an ingenue and a drugged-out wastoid.
 * 2005 — Elizabeth Bloom, See Isabelle Run, Center Point (2005), ISBN 1585476366, page 171:
 * And of those seven, six of them had died in totally unrelated ways; the only exceptions were Trevor and Pinkie, the "wastoid" girl he'd mentioned from the mail room, who'd both overdosed on drugs.
 * 2005 — Bret Easton Ellis, Lunar Park, Knopf (2005), ISBN 9780375412912, page 44:
 * "That crap's for wastoids who can't tell the difference — I just gave you the real stuff."
 * 2006 — Daniel Ehrenhaft, The After Life, Razorbill (2006), ISBN 9781595140807, page 106:
 * Why did you even bother coming? Kevin seethed. You're more of a wastoid than Dad was! You're nineteen years old, and you don't have a driver's license. That says it all. Maybe you haven't heard, but being an underachieving alcoholic loser isn't really cool anymore. Look where it got Dad.
 * 2006 — Brian Sloan, Tale of Two Summers, Simon & Schuster (2006), ISBN 9780689874390, page 109:
 * The minute you see someone take a toke you're like, the devil has come to claim your goddamned soul! And I know this is all due to your wastoid sister, but still, Chuck.
 * 2008 — Monica Ferrell, The Answer Is Always Yes, Dial Press (2009), ISBN 9780385339308, page 266:
 * if Jason weren't always stuck hanging out with Marco (platonic, Jason insisted; narcotic was more like it), like a penned animal, rooting among coke-filmed tinfoils in the perennially lightless, soiled limbo of his-or-her quarters, where he could not be parted from nappy sweatpants and melancholy records, or hanging out with Marco's wastoid crew
 * 2010 — Emily Franklin & Brendan Halpin, The Half-Life of Planets, Hyperion (2010), ISBN 9781423154402, page 22:
 * Or nearly perfect, except for the marching band's practice that made my head ring with cymbals, and the fact that Marissa Michaels and her wastoid crew kept giggling from under the neighboring set of bleachers.
 * 2010 — Rachel Maude, All That Glitters Is Not Gucci, Poppy (2010), ISBN 9780316072359, page 7:
 * For now, the only people who seriously worshipped her were fellow wastoids and other such ganja groupies.
 * 2011 — Justin Taylor, The Gospel of Anarchy, Harper Perennial (2011), ISBN 9780061881824, page 106:
 * But then he went and OD'd. Wastoid. Moron. Sellout.

Noun: "a person regarded with contempt; a loser"

 * 1999 — Michael Hornburg, Downers Grove, Grove Press (2001), ISBN 9780802199577, page 133:
 * "They look like the stupid kind of wastoids who get gobbled up in the first ten minutes of a horror movie," I said.
 * 2007 — James Patterson, Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, Little, Brown and Company (2007), ISBN 9780316005494, page 201:
 * I know that I do matter. I am important. And you're a pathetic, cold, pointless wastoid who's going to grow old alone and die, then roast in limbo forever."
 * 2009 — Robin Wasserman, Crashed, Simon Pulse (2009), ISBN 9781416974536, page 28:
 * I wasn't one of the wastoids who spent all day and night whispering directions into the ears of the vidlifers and watching a bunch of strangers act out my wildest fantasies.
 * 2010 — Natalie Standiford, Confessions of the Sullivan Sisters, Scholastic (2010), ISBN 9780545107105, page 91:
 * And to make sure we wouldn't be disturbed by ex-girlfriends or wastoids I go to school with, he offered to cook dinner for me at his place.
 * 2012 — Max Chase, Star Fighters: Alien Attack, Bloomsbury (2012), ISBN 9781408815847,  pages 35-36:
 * 'What did you do, you cosmic wastoid?' Diesel barked.
 * 'Nothing. I swear.' Peri scanned the control panel and gulped. 'I think we're lifting off!'

Noun: "an absent-minded or vacuous person"

 * 1992 — "Buffy, The Vampire Slayer", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 August 1992:
 * Kristi Swanson is Buffy, an air-headed wastoid who learns she's the savior of Beverly Hills.
 * 2003 — Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret, Little, Brown and Company (2007), ISBN 9780316025751, page 13:
 * Wow, I'd even forgotten to stop by after school and pick up my pills. I didn't remember calling in the refill, and my period ended two days ago. I was a wastoid.
 * 2004 — Kate Brian, The V Club, Simon & Schuster (2004), ISBN 0689867646, page 16:
 * Oh God. What if he was talking to me and I didn't say anything and was just sitting here staring into space like a complete wastoid? Eva blinked. Did I just use the word wastoid?