junky
1
9.6
- noun
- /ˈdʒʌŋki/
- Offensive
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- Junky shambled over and sat on the flat concrete stoop outside the shack.
Nah, it's either a drug dealer or a junkie.
- Nah, it's either a drug dealer or a junkie.
- And I've got the disease of addiction and I don't know if it's genetic or what, but I seem to come from a long line of junkies, you know?
- And for me, you know, lots of people, they think heroin junkies.
- You've got your armed robbers and then it sort of goes down, down, down till you get sort of the petty thieves and the sort of junkies and whatever and you.
- You're just a junk, You're a junkie if you're throwing up into a bucket in Santa Fe, NM with a white fish named Jennifer.
Examples
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Junky said to Greave, pulling at Greave's pant leg with his good hand, "But you got to get her, sooner or later."
Fiction book (1994) -
I have to ask you about another dead junky, named Dowd.
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They made him a junky.
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Junky turned toward him, a smile at the corner of his ravaged face.
Fiction book (1994) -
Junky, caught in a crying jag, nodded, and with a boost from Lucas and Greave, got to his feet.
Fiction book (1994) -
My girls used to come crying home from school saying they've been slagged at school, that their dad was nothing but a drug dealer, nothing but a junkie as they would put it.
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You've got your armed robbers and then it sort of goes down, down, down till you get sort of the petty thieves and the sort of junkies and whatever and you.
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The old man was once a promising artist, but he fell into the lifestyle of a junky and lost everything.
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He struggled to help his brother, who had become a junky after years of battling addiction.
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Walking through the park, I spotted a junky lying on a bench, illustrating the harsh reality of drug addiction.
Synonyms
194
8.6
A person who is addicted to illegal drugs, often called in an insulting way
97
3.0
A person who cannot stop using illegal or harmful drugs
40
9.9
A person who uses the illegal drug crack and cannot stop
20
5.1
A person who keeps using heroin even when it harms them
9
6.1
A person who uses crack cocaine and cannot stop
7
9.9
A person who regularly uses the drug cocaine
7
9.9
A person who cannot stop using illegal drugs, often said in an insulting way
5
5.7
A person who regularly uses drugs in a harmful or illegal way
3
5.5
A person who keeps using cocaine even though it harms them
2
9.6
A person who often uses drugs that make you more active, like amphetamines
2
9.9
A person who often uses illegal drugs
1
9.9
A person who is addicted to illegal drugs
1
9.9
A person who uses cocaine and often cannot stop
1
7.2
A person who uses opium and cannot stop
1
9.5
A person who takes prescription pills too often and cannot stop
1
9.9
A person who is addicted to the drug meth
1
9.9
A person who uses a lot of cocaine and damages their health or life
A person who often uses the drug opium and cannot stop
A person who is addicted to crack and uses it in binges
How Addicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Junky as a slang name for a drug user comes from junk, a street word for hard drugs or 'trash', so a junky is someone addicted to those drugs.