dope-fiend

Stories surrounding those nights are legion: the dope-fiend projectionist who scratched a CND symbol into a Pearl & Dean army recruitment ad and got the reels in the wrong order at a horror festival; the antics at the gay-themed all-nighters.

Cinema of sin: London's old Scala picturehouse 2011

Also in the picture are an American torch singer in a Shanghai nightclub, played by Daryl Hannah; her Chinese lover, Bingo (Jimmy Taenaka), and her dope-fiend brother.

Captured for History 2008

As a matter of fact I have never written a line of any kind while I was under the glow of so much as a single cocktail + tho my parties have been many its been their spectacularity rather than their frequency which has built up the usual “dope-fiend” story.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

As a matter of fact I have never written a line of any kind while I was under the glow of so much as a single cocktail + tho my parties have been many its been their spectacularity rather than their frequency which has built up the usual “dope-fiend” story.

A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

Dufty set out to write a confessional, and suggested the dope-fiend angle as a commercial "gimmick."

Street Diva Kempton, Arthur 2005

She'd moved on to a dope-fiend bass player named John Simmons, and had begun to recoil at the approaches of strangers who presumed to think that because they knew something of her they knew who she was.

Street Diva Kempton, Arthur 2005

RACHAEL: A man who never gives an impersonation of a dope-fiend.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Ob Jesus there they are now, unthinkable Animals running low in the light from the G-5 version of the city, red and yellow turbans, scarred dope-fiend faces, faired as the front end of a '37 Ford, same undirected eyes, same exemption from the Karmic Hammer -

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

You will search it in vain for aspidistra and appendicitis, boche and bolshevist, cinema and camouflage, decontrol and Dora, broadcasting and listening-in, bootlegging and dope-fiend, for a dictionary published to-day is almost out-of-date to-morrow.

On Dictionaries 1969

You will search it in vain for aspidistra and appendicitis, boche and bolshevist, cinema and camouflage, decontrol and Dora, broadcasting and listening-in, bootlegging and dope-fiend, for a dictionary published to-day is almost out-of-date to-morrow.

On Dictionaries 1924