wastoid

English

From waste +‎ -oid. Compare waster (“idler”), wasted (“in a drugged state”).

wastoid (plural wastoids)

(slang, derogatory, offensive) 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.
(slang, derogatory, offensive) A person regarded with contempt; a loser.
- 1999, Michael Hornburg, Downers Grove, Grove Press, published 2001, →ISBN, 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.
(slang, derogatory, offensive) An absent-minded or vacuous person.
- 2004, Kate Brian, The V Club, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, 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?