junkie

See also: Junkie

English

Alternative forms

• junky

Etymology

junk (“narcotic drug”) +‎ -ie

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒʌŋki/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋki

Noun

junkie (plural junkies)

1. (slang, derogatory) 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 Thesaurus:addict

Derived terms

• adrenaline junkie

Translations

drug addict

• Arabic: مُدْمِن m (mudmin), حَشَّاش m (ḥaššāš)
• Bulgarian: наркоман (bg) m (narkoman), зависим (bg) m (zavisim)
• Catalan: ionqui m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 吸毒者 (zh) (xīdúzhě)

• Czech: feťák (cs) m, smažka f
• Danish: narkoman (da) c
• Estonian: narkar, narkomaan
• Finnish: narkomaani (fi), narkkari (fi) (slang), nisti (fi)
• French: accro (fr) m or f, toxicomane (fr) m, drogué (fr) m
• German: Junkie (de) m or f, Drogensüchtiger (de), Drogenabhängiger (de)
• Greek: τοξικομανής (el) m or f (toxikomanís), ναρκομανής (el) m or f (narkomanís)
• Hebrew: נַרְקוֹמָן (he) m (narqomán), נַרְקוֹמָנִים m pl (narqománim), נַרְקוֹמָנִית f (narqománit), נַרְקוֹמָנִיּוֹת f pl (narqomániyot)
• Hungarian: kábítószer-élvező, narkós (hu), heroinfüggő
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• Icelandic: dópisti (is) m
• Irish: andúileach m, andúileach drugaí m
• Japanese: ジャンキー (jankī), 麻薬常習者 (まやくじょうしゅうしゃ, mayakujōshūsha), 麻薬中毒者 (まやくちゅうどくしゃ, mayakuchūdokusha)
• Korean: 마약중독자 (mayakjungdokja), 중독자 (ko) (jungdokja)
• Polish: narkoman (pl), ćpun (pl) (slang)
• Portuguese: drogado (pt) m, viciado (pt) m
• Russian: наркома́н (ru) m (narkomán), наркома́нка (ru) f (narkománka), джа́нки m or f (džánki)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нарко̀ма̄н m, нарко̀ма̄нка f

  Roman: narkòmān (sh) m, narkòmānka (sh) f, narkić m (slang, diminutive)

• Spanish: yonqui/yonki m or f (slang, Anglicism), drogadicto (es) m, drogadicta (es) f
• Swedish: narkoman (sv) c, pundare (sv) c, knarkare (sv) c
• Turkish: keş (tr), esrarkeş (tr), eroinman (tr)

enthusiast

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愛好者／爱好者 (zh) (àihàozhě), 爱好者 (zh) (àihàozhě), 迷 (zh) (mí) (used as a suffix)

• Finnish: hullu (fi)
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• French: accro (fr) m or f
• Russian: люби́тель (ru) m (ljubítelʹ), энтузиа́ст (ru) m (entuziást)
• Spanish: yonqui (slang), adicto (es) m, adicta (es) f

See also

• drug addict

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French

Noun

junkie m or f (plural junkies)

1. junkie (addict)