Definitions for junkie
ˈdʒʌŋ kijunkie

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

1. drug addict, junkie, junky(noun)

   a narcotics addict

2. addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky(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"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. junkie(Noun)

   A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.

2. junkie(Noun)

   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.

How to pronounce junkie?

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   Alex

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   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Simon Robey:

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

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. 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.

4. 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

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