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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | drug addict, junky |
| Type of | addict |
| Has types | binger, cocaine addict, crack addict, withdrawer, heroin addict, opium addict, opium taker |
Examples of junkie
junkie
My favorite serial entrepreneur, Benjamin Franklin, wasn't an adrenaline junkie.
From the forbes.com
I am a news junkie and I seriously worry about losing access to good journalism.
From the theatlantic.com
And the winner gets a fabulous political junkie T-shirt and the no-prize button.
From the npr.org
I am a music junkie when it comes to working out, and I'm far from the only one.
From the orlandosentinel.com
Then you must check out political junkie, a daily blog by National Public Radio.
From the tennessean.com
You're well known for being a car junkie, now you've learnt to fly helicopters.
From the mirror.co.uk
Hidden away from all the prying news junkie eyes is Wallace's sentimental side.
From the thestate.com
She admits to being a political campaign junkie and even worked the phone bank.
From the thenewstribune.com
There was no law that could keep the young speed junkie off the track any longer.
From the sltrib.com
- Drug addict: a narcotics addict
- Addict: someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie"
- Junkie (alternative title spelled Junky) is a 1953 semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs. It was his first published novel and has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s. Burroughs' working title was Junk.
- (The Junkies) The Sports Junkies, also known as The Junkies, are the hosts of an eponymous morning drive time radio show aired in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. The hosts are John Auville, Eric Bickel, Jason Bishop and John-Paul Flaim. Their show is heard on WJFK-FM, at 106. ...
- A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users; An enthusiast of something
- (junkieness) the state of being a junkie
- (Junkies) a derogatory and insulting term for dependent drug user or addict. There is no accepted use of the term.
- A person with a compulsive habit or obsessive dependency on something.
- By William S. Burroughs (1953)
