druggie

variants also druggy
as in addict
a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally an old college classmate who became a druggie and ended up on skid row

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Recent Examples of druggie Later, another encounter with James leads both of them to the aforementioned house as the druggie is looking to get rich quick with the $50,000 reward for information leading to the discovery of the kids. Pete Hammond, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025 Of the three leads, Rahim is the most unrecognizable, having gone full Jared Leto-in-Dallas Buyers Club to portray a druggie at the very end of his tether. Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025 The hidden joke of their routines — what even a lot of the long-haired druggie types in the audience didn’t quite get — is that the counterculture was over. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Apr. 2025 These were the cool kids and hipsters, the desperate and burned out, the visionaries and druggies. Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2025 She was stoned and trying to alibi Reed, but Harry wrote her off as a lying druggie. Nick Caruso, TVLine, 3 Jan. 2025
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Noun
  • In a City Council meeting last week, Boston Public Health Commissioner Bisola Ojikutu said the city distributes 81,112 on average per month to drug addicts.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
  • People don’t realize that being an addict is an everyday struggle and a common one.
    Essence, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • The artist plays the role of a fictional, historical freak – a 19th-century performer known under the stage name The Lonesome Wing, who, according to rumors, was born with the wing of a white bird instead of one arm.
    Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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    , FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2025

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“Druggie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/druggie. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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