Associations to the word «Junkie»

Wiktionary

JUNKIE, noun. (slang) (offensive) (pejorative) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
JUNKIE, noun. (by extension) An enthusiast of something.

Dictionary definition

JUNKIE, noun. A narcotics addict.
JUNKIE, noun. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne