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
Investors and industry executives have spent years asking what Roberts, known as a deal junkie, would do next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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
Now you can be a cord-cutter and a TV news junkie too.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2025
My normally harried, rushed mother always turns into a strung-out retail junkie just before Turkey Day.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Asking college students why they bet on sports is like asking adrenaline junkies why they jump out of airplanes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
The movie ultimately treats us like adrenaline junkies, assuming we lack curiosity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2025
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
Finally, there are the research junkies who do deep dives into a person’s history to create online biographies.
From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024
But the notion that climbers are merely adrenaline junkies chasing a righteous fix is a fallacy, at least in the case of Everest.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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