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hooked
adjective- addicted to drugs US, 1922
Originally a transitive verb–the drug hooking the person–but that formation is long forgotten in the US. - They had a terrible contempt for guys on the “white stuff”–heroin, morphine, and cocaine, all drugs that you took with a hypodermic needle–and they told me how when you got hooked on it you got afraid of water[.] — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 238, 1946
- Is it junk? Are you hooked, Diane? — George Mandel, Flee the Angry Strangers, p. 285, 1952
- When you are hooked, the effects of a shot are not dramatic. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 55, 1953
- GEORGE: Oh, no, no, no, no. I–I–I couldn’t do that. I mean, I’ve got enough problems with the–the booze and all. I mean I–I can’t afford to get hooked. WYATT: Oh, no–you won’t get hooked. — Easy Rider, p. 122, 1969
- I tried hard to be like him, so I got hooked on ‘H.’ — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 99, 1969
- I had been using cocaine every day and using horse every day, so you can understand how I didn’t know I was hooked. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 86, 1973
- Only a skag high ain’t but good the first few times out, then you hooked, all they gotta do is reel you in, by the crotch now, and squeeze till you cough up another five dollars for a bag. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 10, 1975
- Meanwhile Vickie had gotten hooked on junk. — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 55, 1980
- “addicted” to anything non-addictive UK, 1984
- Practically all of us, at some point in our lives, have been hooked on dairy beverages like milk, chocolate milk, and milk shakes. — Marilyn Diamond, American Vegetarian, 1990
- — Hooked on Golf, 1994
- obsessed by an activity or a person UK, 1984
Figurative application of the sense “addicted to drugs”. - — Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hooked on Classics [a series of recordings], 1980s
- It showed that the right music, the right people and the right chemicals could create an amazing party ... for fuck’s sake, who wouldn’t be hooked? — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 49, 1999
- taken care of US
- I called about our airplane tickets and we’re hooked. — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Fall 1989
- put together or arranged well US
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 5, October 2002
- (of a shot in pool) obstructed US, 1979
- — Mike Shamos, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards, p. 117, 1993
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