junkie

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English

Alternative forms

• junky

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌŋki

Noun

junkie (plural junkies)

1. (slang, pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
2. (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.

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 Wikisaurus:addict

Translations

a narcotics/drug addict

• Arabic: مدمن (ar) (múdmin) m, حشاش (ar) (Hashaash) m
• Catalan: ionqui (ca) m and f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吸毒者 (cmn) (xīdúzhě)

• 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)
• 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 
• Serbo-Croatian: narkòmān (sh) m, narkòmānka (sh) f, (slang, diminutive) narkić (sh) m
• 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)