junkie
/ˈdʒʌŋki
/(also junky)
noun informal
1A drug addict.I thought my destiny was to be a heroin addict, a junkie for the rest of my life; I couldn't stop myself and I didn't know a way out....
- For the past eight years, Moira's been on methadone, a drug most imagine only junkies use to get off heroin.
- Only two respondents in this sample were currently relapsing addicts / junkies.
1.1 [with modifier] A person with a compulsive habit or obsessive dependency on something: power junkies...
- With my fabulous culture junkie friends Peter and Jaq, we went to the movies last night.
- Where does the average information starved Net junkie go in such a case?
- However, I'm a noise junky, and a compulsive multitasker, so the TV's on most of the time.
Origin
1920s (originally US): from junk1.
Rhymes
- self-cancelling
- self-catering
- self-censorship
- self-centred
- self-centredly
- self-centredness
- self-certificate
- self-certification
- self-certify
- self-checkout
- self-cleaning
- self-closing
- self-cocking
- self-colour
- self-coloured
- self-command
- self-compatible
- self-conceit
- self-conceited
- self-concept
- self-condemnation
- self-condemned
- self-condemning
- self-confessed
- self-confessedly