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speedfreak noun a person who is addicted to or compulsively uses amphetamines or methamphetamine US- Sam said he was an ex-speed freak, and that may have been why he gave the impression of spiritual fragility. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 15, 1967
- Speedfreaks are probably the junkies of the marijuana generation. — Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in America, p. 10, Winter 1968
- We were turning into a nation of Speed Freaks and Nixon, the used-car dealer from Whittier, California, was becomin’ the biggest pill pusher of them all!!! — Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, p. 69, 1969
- SUPER JOEL TO DR. SPOCK: “Hey, this march is going too slow for us speed freeks.” — Jerry Rubin, Do It!, p. 74, 1970
- There was a lot of speed around, and a lot of obnoxious speedfreaks running around ripping people off[.] — John Sinclair, Guitar Army, p. 285, 1972
- You had to be to own this joint, which catered to bookmakers, huggermugger whores, paddy hustlers, speed freaks, fruits and fruit hustlers, and ex-cons of both sexes and all ages. — Joseph Wambaugh, The Blue Knight, p. 43, 1973
- Did I shoot speed? No, I didn’t. Speed kills. I’m not a speedfreak. — Lester Bangs (quoting Lou Reed), Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 177, 1975
- Gloria is a speed freak, in the true sense of the word. She has been on a virtual nonstop run of speed, in one form or another, for the last ten years. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 29, 1987
- “Speed freaks,” said Buell sardonically, and we understood a great deal about the erstwhile tenants. To think that methedrine was a prized and popular drug back then[.] — Sean Hutchinson, Crying Out Loud, p. 93, 1988
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