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junkie

noun as in drug taker

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After all, the stereotypical junkie probably wouldn’t turn a clinic’s waiting room into an autograph signing.

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Now you can be a cord-cutter and a TV news junkie too.

“We were making the film in the middle of the flames, so I don’t know. I’m a junkie of images and I need this drug.”

“And what I meant by that was, he didn’t have all the hype but he was a football junkie, he had a passion for the game.”

“When it works, it works. I’m not a collector; I’m an estate-sale junkie, which makes it way less serious.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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