SPEED FREAKS Synonyms: 19 Similar and Opposite Words

speed freaks

noun

plural of speed freak

as in acidheads

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Noun

In addition, the share of users with at least eight rose from 62% to 71% over the past year.

— Barbara Booth, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026
Jurors sided with prosecutors, finding Facebook made deceptive statements about protecting users’ data that affected New Mexico’s entire population of more than two million people.

— Mikella Schuettler, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of users

Noun

The problem with just arresting addicts is there’s nowhere to take them.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026
Outside, addicts wander peg-legged in the pulverizing triple-digit late summer heat, past attorneys in cream sport coats and copper-red ties.

— Jeff Weiss, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of addicts

Noun

The residents occasionally gather in a disused rec center but the meetings devolve into rants about immigrants, junkies, thugs and vigilantism.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
As the club’s name implies, car junkies will get an opportunity to see lots of Model T’s and other antique autos from more than a century ago on display.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of junkies

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Ghosts have gone more mainstream than vampires, no longer grouped with the other weird freaks— the zombies and the werewolves, that paranormal genre once ascribed only to lovers of the macabre.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
But the stage that Springer cultivated was a gleeful one, a tacky spectacle of shock and depravity, an ungodly home for the freaks who knew just what to do when the lights came on.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

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