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See also: speed freak
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Noun[edit]
speedfreak (plural speedfreaks)
- (slang) An addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
- (slang) A person who enjoys driving, riding motorcycles, etc. at high speeds.
- (slang) A metalhead who listens to speed metal.
Quotations[edit]
- 1973, Richard Mills, Young Outsiders: A Study of Alternative Communities, Pantheon Books, published 1973, page 58:
- Jimmy: the journal of a speedfreak I have been around the West End two or three years....
- 1984, Kenneth Blum, Handbook of Abusable Drugs, Gardner Press, published 1984, page 312:
- Their level of abuse is holding steady, and the intravenous injection of large amounts, the speedfreak phenomenon noted during the 1960's, almost has disappeared.
- 2004, Carol Clerk, The Saga of Hawkwind, Omnibus Press, published 2004, page 100:
- New boy, new speedfreak, sings song in two takes.... 'The speedfreak upstart - how dare he? Why isn't it me?
References[edit]
- Eric Partridge (2005) “speedfreak”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1831.