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What (who) is junkie - definition
junkie
(also junky)
¦ noun informal a drug addict.
?a person with an obsessive dependency on or enthusiasm for something: a media junkie.
Origin
1920s (orig. US): from junk1.
junkie
(junkies)
1.
A junkie is a drug addict. (INFORMAL)
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2.
You can use junkie to refer to someone who is very interested in a particular activity, especially when they spend a lot of time on it. (INFORMAL)
...a computer junkie.
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Junkie (novel)
NOVEL BY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
Junky (novel)
Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (originally titled Junk, later released as Junky) is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, initially published under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953.
Wikipedia
Junkie
Junkie is a pejorative usually referring to a person with an addiction.
Examples of use of junkie
1. "I am an Internet junkie and a news junkie," she said in an interview after the final campaign event Monday.
2. Consider a job in retail If you‘re a caffeine junkie...
3. Prosecutors painted Pitonyak as a drug–dealing junkie.
4. Junkie, crack smoking, singers with husbands in prison.
5. No wonder I was becoming a pasta and potato junkie.