Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) a drunkard.

1922		Cap’n Joey’s Jazza-Ka-Jazza Mar. 7: [title] Delirium Tremens of a Liquor Head.
1928		R. Fisher Walls Of Jericho 195: I don’ think you ought t’ have no licker-head for a boss.
1929		T. Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel (1930) 189: Do you think that’s all I’ve got to do — watching you licker-heads?
1946		Mezzrow & Wolfe Really the Blues 213: Then for instance you take a lot of ofay liquor-heads, when they come up here and pass the jug around.
a.1948		(con. early 1930s) C. McKay Harlem Glory (1990) 87: There’s a lot of liquor-heads don’t care what they drink.
1954		(con. 1920s–30s) J.O. Killens Youngblood (1956) 423: They’re a bunch of licker-heads.
1960		C. Himes Big Gold Dream (1969) 65: She’s just a cook and a liquor-head to boot, so she doesn’t have much money.
1970		R.C. Davids Man Who Moved a Mountain 12: Pa was a liquor-head. He worked hard when he was sober.