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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
But then my druggy yet still aspirationally sober friend at the meeting ran after me.
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Brontez Purnell, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Seth Rogen and [costar] Ike Barinholtz, ‘You guys are huge druggies!
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
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
Brontez Purnell, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
Seth Rogen and [costar] Ike Barinholtz, ‘You guys are huge druggies!
—Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Sep. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for druggie
Noun
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Among the former cohort is Hal Incandenza, a star student, teen-age tennis prodigy, secret marijuana addict, and Hamlet manqué.—
Hermione Hoby,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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Some of them are addicts, some sell themselves for money, others are simply homeless.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2026
Noun
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These changes allowed the team to push performance higher without reducing the bore size, a key requirement for user experiments.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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The agency is now considering expanding parking fees to all users.—
Jasmine Arenas,
CBS News,
28 Jan. 2026
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“Druggie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/druggie. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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