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next fix

next fix

3 9.9
The next dose of an addictive drug that a person badly wants
  • noun
  • NSFW
translation icon : próxima dosis
  • Just look at all the children of crack addicts who use their welfare money on their next fix and leave their children to run in the streets and starve.
  • get their next fix

Overweight, lethargic, a carbon sugar junkie looking for my next fix.

Examples

  • They begin with good intentions, but within hours, most of them are climbing the walls to get out for their next fix.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • After weeks of struggling, he realized that obtaining his next fix had become his only priority.

  • Even now, it was hard to think beyond the next fix.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Everyone has tasted the drug and is looking for the next fix.

    Blog text (8)

  • I rummaged through my dresser trying to find my medicine like a junkie looking for his next fix.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • That doesn't work when they need their next fix of whatever they are using, and that is their only thought (not should I use birth control).

    Blog text (4)

  • - It is a matter of public record that the addict will sell anything, anything at all, to obtain the decadent rush of that next fix.

    Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical (2006)

  • I have a sneaking feeling that you'll be back, Alex, like a heroin addict looking for his next fix.

    Blog text (20)

  • At the time, it didn't matter to him—nothing mattered except his next fix.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • Every day, she woke up feeling anxious about where to find her next fix to ease her cravings.

Synonyms

fix
vsnext fix
  • NSFW
72 8.4

An amount of a drug that someone strongly wants

refers specifically to the immediate forthcoming dose someone urgently seeks

Surface Forms

next fix singular
next fixes plural

Morphology

next + fix

The meaning 'the next dose of an addictive drug' is directly and compositionally derived from 'next' (occurring directly after) modifying 'fix' (a dose or thing an addict craves). The modifier+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent meanings would readily understand this MWE.

Etymology

Next fix comes from the idea of a quick fix, a fast repair or solution. People who use drugs called each 'dose' a fix because it quickly stops the bad feelings when they have none, so the next fix is the next drug 'dose' they strongly want.