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 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
  • The portrait of Depardieu that Ferrara gives is the last in Scene’s gallery of fellow addicts, beginning with the author’s immediate family and continuing with his later friends and collaborators, quite a few of whom come to unhappy ends.
    Nick Pinkerton, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • AlAnon is a support group for family and friends of alcoholics/addicts.
    Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What To Know Propel surveyed 2,463 active SNAP users between October 20 and 21, 2025, to assess how a potential delay in SNAP payments would impact them.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Some of these technologies are essential for ensuring the proper functioning of the service or website and cannot be disabled, while others are optional but serve to enhance the user experience in various ways.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But for Dylan, going from Jew to Jesus freak—however slack a Jew he’d been—was no more questionable or embarrassing to him than going from acoustic to electric.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • The freak incident, naturally, made the news.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Druggie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/druggie. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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