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

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca