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How to pronounce junky in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms addict, freak, junkie, nut
Type of enthusiast, partisan, partizan
Has types gym rat
Type Words
Synonyms drug addict, junkie
Type of addict
Has types binger, cocaine addict, crack addict, withdrawer, heroin addict, opium addict, opium taker

Examples of junky

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If this is the first column you turn to each week, you might just be a Net junky.
From the newscientist.com
Goldman had insured more junky bonds with AIG than the rest of the counterparties.
From the curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com
Casey McGrath, a Starbucks regular, was unsympathetic to the daily java junky.
From the jsonline.com
Yet over 70 years ago, it was first proclaimed that all this junk wasn't so junky.
From the sciencedaily.com
The average counterparty CDS portfolio had just 18% of similarly rated junky bonds.
From the curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com
Oversize junky meals and downsized physical activity are bulking up kids'waistlines.
From the chron.com
For the adrenalin junky hubby, why not propose underwater at the Great Barrier Reef?
From the couriermail.com.au
Then they can spend most of their time in the really junky areas in Mobile.
From the al.com
As a Jay Leno joke junky, I usually don't plop in bed until after midnight.
From the ocregister.com
More examples
  • 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.
  • Alternative spelling of junkie; Having the quality (or being like) junk, cheap or of low quality
  • (junkily) In a junky manner
  • Alternate name for a Day Labourer, who worked at a junk yard stripping valuable parts from discarded items, e.g. copper. He then transported these by horse and cart to sell elsewhere. Was paid on a commission basis.
  • Someone addicted to taking drugs - causing emotional, mental, social & financial problems.
  • By William S. Burroughs (1953)