Alcohol addicts have been called alcoholics since the middle of the 19th century. It took about a hundred years for someone to steal this suffix for other addictions, but the trend took off with a vengeance and workaholic appeared in the 1940s, followed by foodaholic, coffeeholic, and chocoholic. You can make any variant yourself – just don’t expect to see it in the dictionary any time soon.
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Like a chocoholic, but for booze
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