druggy

¹ American  

[druhg-ee] / ˈdrʌg i /

noun

plural

druggies

1. druggie.

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druggy ² American  

[druhg-ee] / ˈdrʌg i /

adjective

druggier, druggiest

1. affected by a drug, especially a narcotic or illicit drug.

   playing to a druggy audience.

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Etymology

Origin of druggy¹

First recorded in 1970–75; drug ¹ + -y ²

Origin of druggy²

drug ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Hollywood has produced many vivid tales of druggy debauchery, especially about heroin.

From New York Times

Nowhere are Daniels’s elevated intentions more at odds with his baser cinematic instincts than in a druggy dream sequence, wherein Holiday revisits the abandonment and pain of her childhood, traumas that give way to the larger collective agony of an African American population living under the constant threat of White terror.

From Washington Post

“Paleflower” combines guitar riffs with handclaps, the percolating “Little Bell” pauses for turntable scratching and the druggy “Forever Vines” recalls a bad trip involving a disgraced Florida golfer.

From Washington Times

As the novel’s title suggests, Van Meter is exploring the line between the reckless, druggy, creaturey side of our character and the civilized one that craves connection with a lover, a parent or a child.

From Los Angeles Times

It is as much farce as elegy — his dreamy, druggy interludes vie with deathbed scenes and recollections of a childhood of poverty and abandonment, spent in the brothels where his mother worked, changing her name “with the nonchalance with which other women dye or perm their hair” — Lorena, Vicky, Juana.

From New York Times