Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A narcotics addict, especially one using heroin.
- noun One who has an insatiable interest or devotion.
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- noun slang, pejorative A
narcotics addict , especially referring toheroin users. - noun by extension An
enthusiast of something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a narcotics addict
- noun someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
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Examples
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Don't call her an addict: Marisa Woolsey prefers the term "junkie" -- "infomercial junkie," that is.
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Like the label junkie that I am, I immediately bought colored labels, hoping to color code boxes by room and stick a key to the colors on the door so that the poor schleps who end up helping me will understand my system.
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If you are a ruin junkie, travel farther north to the "City of Thunder," El Tajin.
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Ken Rudin, our political junkie, is going to be with us, and we're going to look at the toss-up races in the House excuse me, in the Senate and the four state houses.
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If you are a ruin junkie, travel farther north to the "City of Thunder," El Tajin.
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Sounds like a heroin junkie, tap a vein Sarah, just call it what it is, oil junkie.
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Ken Rudin, our political junkie, is going to be with us, and we're going to look at the toss-up races in the House excuse me, in the Senate and the four state houses.
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It turns out that Midge, over the past few years, has turned into a heroin junkie and in fact tracked down Don and staged a fake run-in to try to lure him into buying a painting to pay for her next fix.
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And Midge, Don's one-time Bohemian lover, is a heroin junkie peddling her paintings and even herself for the next fix.
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If you are a ruin junkie, travel farther north to the "City of Thunder," El Tajin.
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