junkie
noun/ˈdʒʌŋki/
/ˈdʒʌŋki/
(also junky)
(informal)- a drug addict (= a person who is unable to stop taking dangerous drugs)Topics Social issuesc2Oxford Collocations DictionaryJunkie is used after these nouns:
- news
Word Origin1920s (originally US): from junk ‘heroin’.Definitions on the go
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