Definitions for junkie
ˈdʒʌŋ kijunkie

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. drug addict, junkie, junkynoun

   a narcotics addict

2. addict, nut, freak, junkie, junkynoun

   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"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. junkienoun

   A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.

2. junkienoun

   An enthusiast of something.

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1. Junkie

   Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict is a novel by American beat generation writer William S. Burroughs, published initially under the pseudonym William Lee in 1953. His first published work, it is semi-autobiographical and focuses on Burroughs' life as a drug user and dealer. It has come to be considered a seminal text on the lifestyle of heroin addicts in the early 1950s.

Matched Categories

1. • Addict
   • Enthusiast

How to pronounce junkie?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of junkie in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of junkie in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of junkie in a Sentence

1. Scott C. Holstad:

   I want people to wail, gnash their teeth, beat each other with words when they read my poems, all guns death drugs despair, life as I know it and live it and want it to be. I want people to read my poetry and try not to puke, vomit, cry. Poetry exists to disturb, punish, torment—show what’s real, man. Shudder wild beauty, for this is a fantastic freakshow, ain’t my garden of flowers and love, pity, and grandeur. I don’t wish to kill poetry, but to blow it through the roof—til the last junkie’s dead, til the matrix has gotten us all, til we’ve hung overdoses on the edge, the words, the poem.

2. Famer Magic Johnson:

   For a basketball junkie like I am, I just loved it, i was actually sick that the series is over.

3. Andrew Schneider:

   the vow of silence, that's the mind-blower. see, talking is what I do... I t's a real need with me, a craving, I'm like a word junkie. I never shut up. I talk to myself, I talk in my sleep. the idea of voluntarily turning off that tap, I can't imagine it it'd be like, I don't know, all the rivers in the world just slammed to a stop. no churning, no flowing, no white water, just stillness, crushing stillness. I don't think I could stand it, locked up like that in my own psyche. I'd collapse into myself, I'd implode

4. Simon Robey:

   I'm not a deal junkie, I'm probably a rather old-fashioned corporate financier.

5. Chuck Negron:

   I got a call from Buddy Arnolds, who started the program, and he said, ‘Kurt Cobain is at this hospital, and I just visited him. He would like to meet you,’ he wasn’t aware of my music… He was aware of my being a world-class junkie. He wanted to meet the junkie that got clean.

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