junkie
Americannoun
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junkies
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Disparaging and Offensive. a person addicted to drugs, especially one addicted to heroin.
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a person with an insatiable craving for something.
a chocolate junkie.
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an enthusiastic follower; fan; devotee.
a baseball junkie.
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When Tayshia Adams, a TV host and self-professed skincare junkie, double cleanses in the shower, she uses a vitamin C-based exfoliating wash then a hydrating cleanser.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The actress plays an outdoors-loving adrenaline junkie harassed by a group of hunters in director Baltasar Kormákur’s spectacular, unsettling film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Glover, born in 1976 in Pomona, was an adrenaline junkie who dreamed of being everything from a stuntman to a race car driver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026
For example, agents can talk about the latest game to a sports fan and about current events to a news junkie.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
My normally harried, rushed mother always turns into a strung-out retail junkie just before Turkey Day.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Soon the world’s media, true-crime junkies and more would descend on her courthouse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Everything from diabetes to schizophrenia, he claims, is caused by Americans being junk food junkies.
From Salon ● May 18, 2026
It could have been for any other market research exercise, for washing powder or water bills, rather than anything to do with Westminster - so it wasn't a gathering of political junkies.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2025
Many Criterion junkies have imagined what it would be like to hang out in that closet — to be enveloped in that cozy cocoon of great movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
“The object of attention. Nicole. Gossip junkies love the chase. End that, you end the story.”
From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin
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