addictad‧dict /ˈædɪkt/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
a recovering heroin addict2someone who is very interested in something and spends a lot of time doing itTV/sports etc addict My nephew is a complete video game addict.
WORD ORIGINaddict
Origin:
1500-1600 Latin past participle of addicere ‘to give to formally or legally’, from ad- ‘to’ + dicere ‘to say’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A lot of women drug addicts become prostitutes in order to get money to buy drugs.
- a television addict
- Heroin addicts run an increased risk of getting AIDS.
- It's difficult for most smokers to admit that they are addicts.
- Many addicts refuse to go to treatment centers.
- And strict application of the law would deny an addict the possibility of rehabilitation.
- Here they began a small home for alcoholics and drug addicts.
- I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.
- It had kept all but the most enthusiastic golf addicts indoors.
- Rank, a cocaine addict, commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.
- Read in studio Former drug abusers fear addicts could die if a rehabilitation centre is forced to close.
- She said she had seen no evidence that the abandoned house was used by drug addicts.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who is addicted to a drug
· It's difficult for most smokers to admit that they are addicts.drug/heroin/morphine etc addict · A lot of women drug addicts become prostitutes in order to get money to buy drugs.· Heroin addicts run an increased risk of getting AIDS.
also user someone who regularly takes an illegal drug: · The city has proposed a plan to register all drug users at a special clinic.· Once a user himself, Gary now works as a counsellor helping other addicts.
informal someone who is addicted to a strong illegal drug such as heroin - use this to show disapproval: · It is a dangerous part of town - there are thieves and junkies everywhere.· The toilets are often used by junkies who leave their needles lying around on the floor.
someone who likes something very much someone who likes a particular sport, team, or famous entertainer very much: · Thousands of fans came to hear Oasis play.· a football fanfan of: · Fans of Sylvester Stallone will enjoy this movie.
someone who likes a particular activity very much: music/car/wine/animal etc lover: · We are a nation of animal lovers.· Every jazz lover dreams of visiting New Orleans.lover of: · Lovers of night life won't be able to resist the many nightclubs in the area.
someone who likes a subject, activity, performer etc very much, is very interested in them and knows a lot about them: · Enthusiasts are willing to pay up to $12,000 for an original copy of the book.football/film/jazz etc enthusiast: · Golf enthusiasts will be able to see the tournament live on TV.· The exhibition will be of interest to classic car owners and other motoring enthusiasts.
informal someone who is extremely interested in a particular activity, especially when other people think they are a little strange for liking it so much: health/tv/sports etc freak: · Raw vegetables and nuts have always been a favourite with health-food freaks.· One Beatle's freak is reported to have paid $18,000 for Paul McCartney's birth certificate.
informal someone who does, eats, watches etc something a lot because they enjoy it so much that they cannot stop doing it - use this especially when you do not think someone should be spending so much time doing or being involved in a particular thing: TV/news/fast food etc junkie: · If you're a shopping junkie, then this is the channel for you!· You'd have to be a real political junkie to remember that Tsongas won the New Hampshire Primary in 1992.TV/news/fast food etc addict: · My sons and my husband are all football addicts.
formal someone who likes something such as art or literature very much and spends a lot of their time and money on it: · He's a devotee of old Hollywood movies.· Urquhart, a rich devotee of the arts, made generous donations to the museum.
WORD SETSacid, nounaddict, nounaddicted, adjectiveaddiction, nounaddictive, adjectiveamphetamine, nounbong, nouncannabis, nounclean, adjectivecocaine, nouncoke, nouncold turkey, nouncontrolled substance, nouncrack, nouncut, verbdeal, verbdealer, noundesigner drug, noundetox, noundetoxification, noundope, noundope, verbdopehead, noundowner, noundrug, noundrug addict, noundrug baron, noundrug czar, noundrug dealer, noundruggie, noundrug rehabilitation, noundrug runner, nounecstasy, nounfix, nounganja, noungear, nounglue-sniffing, noungrass, nounhallucinogen, nounhallucinogenic, adjectivehard, adjectivehard drugs, nounhash, nounhashish, nounhemp, nounheroin, nounhigh, adjectivehigh, nounhippie, nounhit, nounjoint, nounjunkie, nounline, nounLSD, nounmagic mushroom, nounmainline, verbmarijuana, nounmescaline, nounmethadone, nounmule, nounnarc, nounnarcotic, adjectiveneedle, nounOD, verbopiate, nounopium, nounoverdose, nounpeddler, nounpep pill, nounpot, nounpsychedelic, adjectivepush, verbpusher, nounrecovery program, nounreefer, nounrehab, nounroach, nounscore, verbshooting gallery, nounsmack, nounsmoke, nounsniff, verbsnort, verbsnort, nounsnow, nounsoft drug, nounsolvent abuse, nounspeed, nounstash, nounsteroid, nounstoned, adjectivestrung-out, adjectivesubstance abuse, nountab, nountake, verbtrafficking, nountrip, nountrip, verbuse, verbwasted, adjectiveweed, nounwithdrawal, nounwithdrawal symptoms, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a recovering heroin addict My nephew is a complete video game addict.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a heroin addictCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
1someone who is unable to stop taking drugsdrug/heroin/morphine etc addict a recovering heroin addict My nephew is a complete video game addict. (=be unable to stop taking drugs)· People who are addicted to drugs need help.
(=someone who cannot stop taking drugs)· At 20 Steve was a drug addict, unemployed and lonely.
a heroin addict· He's a cocaine addict, and recently his behaviour has deteriorated rapidly.· Rank, a cocaine addict, commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.
· Unfortunately, much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts.· At 17 he was a drug addict.· The Marquis of Blandford, a former drug addict, married Becky in 1990.· Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.· No, a drug addict doesn't get any help.· The people look furtive, like drug addicts, as they take them out in stacks of four or five.· Andrew and Wendy plan to work with drug addicts in Hong Kong and they will soon embark on a two-month trial period.· But when I got to high school, my parents were calling me a drug addict anyway.
· I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.· Drug warriors frequently remind us that there are few cocaine or heroin addicts who did not smoke marijuana first.· Only with heroin addicts, that can be fatal a lot faster than with smokers.· There was this other guy who was either an aging rocker or a heroin addict, or both.· Frankfurt has 10,000 registered heroin addicts.· We know he's a heroin addict.· She was sharing a room with a girl called Anita, an ex heroin addict.
VERB· Doug felt momentarily sorry for this man, who had become an addict through no fault of his own.· I did not take to the streets, I did not become a crack addict.· You will probably become an addict and spend much time over the Christmas holiday on fringes for stoles and scarves as well!· Allowed free access to their own reward centers, many of the rats became hopeless lever addicts.· Pintsch had become an addict of the hobby early in the thirties, as had most of his friends.· I became a total bird addict.· I have in fact become something of an addict of detector technology.
a recovering heroin addict2someone who is very interested in something and spends a lot of time doing itTV/sports etc addict My nephew is a complete video game addict.