variants
or less commonly junky
plural junkies
1
a
disparaging + offensive
: a person who is addicted to narcotics and especially to heroin
b
: a person who gets an unusual amount of pleasure from or has an unusual amount of interest in something
a television news junkie
Adrenaline junkies weren't the only ones who marveled as Austrian daredevil Baumgartner broke the world record for the highest and fastest skydive …—
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: a junk dealer
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Examples of junkie in a Sentence
heroin junkies wasting their lives
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The writer-director is more than a murder-mystery junkie.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 25 Jan. 2023
Kingsbury is a football junkie who’s going to walk away with great on-the-job experience and reportedly about $30 million after getting sacked with several years left on his contract.
—Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
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A.a. Dowd, Chron, 25 Jan. 2023
Kingsbury is a football junkie who’s going to walk away with great on-the-job experience and reportedly about $30 million after getting sacked with several years left on his contract.
—Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 10 Jan. 2023
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“Junkie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/junkie. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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junkie
noun
junk·ie
variants
also junky
plural junkies
1
: a person who sells or is addicted to narcotics
2
: a person who gets an unusual amount of pleasure from or is dependent on something
a sugar junkie
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