junkie
Americannoun
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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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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
But anyone who has followed the man’s career knows he’s a performance junkie.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
Kosinski doesn’t present as your average adrenaline junkie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025
“When it works, it works. I’m not a collector; I’m an estate-sale junkie, which makes it way less serious.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2025
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
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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