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junkie
noun- a drug addict, specifically one addicted to heroin US, 1922
A user of JUNK (drugs, opiates, heroin). - Lukey’s no junky. It’s oney gauge he’s on. — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 20, 1948
- I had instructed them to hold themselves out as “junkies” (narcotic users). I was sure that, as soon as the word got around that they “used the stuff,” and that they were well-heeled to pay for it, those doing the smuggling would seek them out. — The New American Mercury, p. 710, 1950
- I was cutting up to Harlem to see a junkie that Little Rock used to know in Atlanta. — John Clellon Holmes, Go, p. 201, 1952
- There was a time when his pride kept him up, for he was different, he thought, no ordinary junkie. — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 2, 1952
- There were wild Negro queers, sullen guys with guns, shiv-packing seamen, thin, non-committal junkies, and an occasional well-dressed middle-aged detective[.] — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 131, 1957
- He said evenly, “I am not a junkie. Lex is for junkies. I ain’t hooked.” — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 100, 1960
- The motorized patrol was usually made twice a day, cop teams making constant saunters along the border streets to check IDs, roll up sleeve and trouser legs for junkie spot checks[.] — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 235, 1961
- All the animals come out at night. Whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- “What?” said the assistant, who must think I’m some kind of junkie freak by now, Barbie thought. — Francesca Lia Block, I Was a Teenage Fairy, p. 127, 1998
- It was not just the thugs either, but the junkies, prostitutes, heavy drinkers and smokers. — John King, White Trash, p. 152, 2001
- by extension, a person fiercely devoted to an activity US, 1962
- A symbol junkie. People like him–that is, the majority–are strung out on symbols. They’re so addicted that they prefer abstract symbols to the concrete things which symbols represent. — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 227, 1971
- She’s a young girl out of Berkeley ... a television junkie. — Dan Jenkins, Life Its Ownself, p. 294, 1984
- He wondereed if he qualified as a full-fledged TV junkie, a chronic escapist who needed the tube to fill a void he was no longer capable of filling himself. — Armistead Maupin, Babycakes, p. 13, 1984
- [A]pplause-junkies like yours truly. — Dave Courtney, Stop the Ride I Want to Get Off, p. 195, 1999
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