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  • noun Plural form of junkie or junky.

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Examples

  • Just political junkies from the Left and the Right who both used it to slam the president.

    Matthew Yglesias » Franken Hits Obama Over CSPAN Promise 2010

  • Two weeks (!) separate political junkies from the end of one of the most fascinating midterm elections in modern memory.

    The final 14 days: Reports from the field! Chris Cillizza 2010

  • Lala: Assuming that all heroin junkies mainline it is probably the most harmful stereotypes in society today.

    ‘EAGLE EYE’: SHIA LA POOF TRIES TO LOOK OLD 2008

  • The sense that these regions have become 'aid junkies' is very strong.

    Barnett Formula: Propping Up The Labour Gerrymander 2008

  • The sense that these regions have become 'aid junkies' is very strong.

    Archive 2008-07-06 2008

  • Defense attorney Rick Beuke fired back that it was the government's witnesses – five men he called junkies, pathological liars and career criminals – who weren't telling the truth.

    Jon Burge Trial: Jury Begins Deliberations 2010

  • But I suspect what you mean by adventure junkies is readers primarily (or solely) interested in the heroic genres within strange fiction -- readers of Space Opera or Epic Fantasy -- rather than readers primarily (or solely) interested in the symbolic formulation sold within those genres.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • But I suspect what you mean by adventure junkies is readers primarily (or solely) interested in the heroic genres within strange fiction -- readers of Space Opera or Epic Fantasy -- rather than readers primarily (or solely) interested in the symbolic formulation sold within those genres.

    More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

  • He appears to have spawned a new generation of politically minded endorphin junkies eager to push their physical limits as strenuously as they pursue their political careers — many of them, in fact, with an eye to replacing Bush.

    Marathon Men 2005

  • He appears to have spawned a new generation of politically minded endorphin junkies eager to push their physical limits as strenuously as they pursue their political careers — many of them, in fact, with an eye to replacing Bush.

    Marathon Men 2005

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