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junkie (plural junkies)
- (slang, pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
- (by extension) An enthusiast of something.
- English people are travel junkies, but Americans hardly ever leave their state.
- My uncle is a classic car junkie.
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- 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.
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a narcotics/drug addict
- Arabic: مدمن (ar) (múdmin) m., حشاش (ar) (Hashaash) m.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 吸毒者 (cmn) (xīdúzhě)
- Croatian: narkòmān (hr) m., narkòmānka (hr) f., (slang, diminutive) narkić (hr) m.
- Danish: narkoman (da) c.
- Estonian: narkar (et), narkomaan (et)
- Finnish: narkomaani (fi), narkkari (fi) (slang), nisti (fi)
- French: accro (fr) m. and f., toxicomane (fr) m., drogué (fr) m.
- German: Junkie (de) m. and f., Drogensüchtiger (de), Drogenabhängiger (de)
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- Greek: τοξικομανής (el) (toksikomanís) m. and f., ναρκομανής (el) (narkomanís) m. and f.
- Japanese: ジャンキー (ja) (jankī), 麻薬常習者 (ja) (まやくじょうしゅうしゃ, mayakujōshūsha), 麻薬中毒者 (ja) (まやくちゅうどくしゃ, mayakuchūdokusha)
- Polish: narkoman (pl), ćpun (pl) (slang)
- Russian: наркоман (ru) (narkomán) m., наркоманка (ru) (narkománka) f., (indeclinable) джанки (ru) (džánki) m. and f.
- Spanish: yonqui (es) (slang, Anglicism), drogadicto (es) m.
- Swedish: narkoman (sv) c., pundare (sv) c., knarkare (sv) c.
- Turkish: keş (tr), esrarkeş (tr), eroinman (tr)
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