Junkie

Noun

 * 1)  A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
 * 2)  An enthusiast of something.
 * My uncle is a classic car junkie.

Quotations

 * 1982: The Message (song) by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
 * Rats in the front room, roaches in the back. Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:addict

Thesaurus
LSD user, acidhead, addict, alcoholic, chain smoker, cocaine sniffer, cokie, cubehead, dipsomaniac, dope fiend, doper, drug abuser, drug addict, drug user, drunkard, fiend, freak, glue sniffer, habitual, head, heavy smoker, hophead, hype, marijuana smoker, methhead, narcotics addict, pillhead, pothead, snowbird, speed freak, tripper, user

Alternative forms

 * junky

Translations

 * Arabic: مدمن, حشاش
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 吸毒者
 * Croatian: ,
 * Danish:
 * Estonian:, narkomaan
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, ,
 * German:, ,


 * Greek: ,
 * Japanese: ジャンキー, 麻薬常習者, 麻薬中毒者
 * Polish:, ćpun
 * Russian:, ,   джанки
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:, esrarkeş,  eroinman