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strung out
adjective- addicted to a drug; in a poor state of physical and mental health as a result of drug addiction US
Used as a participial adjective. - When you really get strung out you don’t care about anything but your next fix. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 368, 1958
- She was too strung out. I no longer cared enough to make the effort. — Alexander Trocchi, Cain’s Book, p. 158, 1960
- In the case of a prostitute, she may be getting so thin and sick-looking–so “strung out”–that she has been forced to reduce her price. — James Mills, The Panic in Needle Park, p. 18, 1966
- [B]ut that’s what happens to guys who really strung out. Like, I mean, my habit ain’t that bad, see? — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 128, 1968
- He’s a little strung out right now, but he’ll be all right. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 67, 1971
- [T]he larvae of this species is as addicted to milkweed juice as the most strung-out junky to smack. — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 21, 1971
- Carmelita, hold me tighter, I think I’m sinking down / I’m all strung out on heroin on the outskirts of town. — Warren Zevon, Carmelito, 1976
- One day I’m over there she’s sniffling and nervous like she’s strung out or somebody died. — Elmore Leonard, Bandits, p. 136, 1987
- I’m just astonished at the number of soldiers that got strung out in Vietnam. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 6, 1990
- obsessed with or overly concerned about an activity or condition; emotionally disturbed US
- Don’t get strung out by the way that I look / Don’t judge a book by its cover — Richard O’Brien, The Rocky Horror Show, p. 8, 1973
- I will not get strung out by the way I look? — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 29, 2002
- extended UK
- The Bhoys [Irish “boys”] ’ll give it a deliberately strung-out pause to half remind us how moody they are[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 214, 2001
- in love; infatuated US
- — Current Slang, p. 46, Fall 1968
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