Allow real junkies to use their drug of choice inside a junkie sanitarium or compound.
Regardless, a junkie can't give up the habit by looking for more hits.
Your standard tobacco junkie, will probably go the whole life, without spending more than a day or two off the wretched stuff.
Of course, every junkie eventually hits rock bottom, at which point there is no more money that can be squeezed out of them.
You're caught up in this junkie behavior, and you have to keep upping the dose.
Billy, whom one character admiringly describes as an adrenaline junkie, lives for speed.
The book is one of the best research tools around for any college basketball junkie.
There is no evidence to suggest that the informant is a junkie.
So, if you're a political junkie, fire up your computer and watch the returns come in today.
He does have a reputation for being an adrenaline junkie.
British Dictionary definitions for junkie
junkie
/ˈdʒʌŋkɪ/
noun (pl) junkies
1.
an informal word for a drug addict, esp one who injects heroin into himself
Word Origin and History for junkie
n.
"drug addict," 1923, from junk (n.1) in the narcotics sense + -y (3). Junker in the same sense is recorded from 1922. Junk for "narcotic" is older.
Slang definitions & phrases for junkie
junkie
modifier
: Junkie logic is the ability to justify whatever needs to be done to support an addiction
noun
A narcotics addict: I didn't want to be a junkie/ The man I was to find was both a junkie and pusher(1923+ Narcotics)
devotee or addict of any sort: Zuckerman describes himself as a ''newspaper and magazine junkie''/ Growth junkies, snipes one former insider, go-go boys