junkie

See also: Junkie

English

junk (“narcotic drug”) +‎ -ie

junkie (plural junkies)

(slang, derogatory) A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
(by extension) An enthusiast of something.
English people are travel junkies, but Americans hardly ever leave their state.

My uncle is a classic car junkie.

1982: The Message (song) by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Rats in the front room, roaches in the back. Junkies in the alley with a baseball bat.

drug addict

Arabic: مُدْمِن‎ m (mudmin), حَشَّاش‎ m (ḥaššāš)
Catalan: ionqui m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 吸毒者 (zh) (xīdúzhě)
Czech: feťák (cs) m, smažka f
Danish: narkoman (da) c
Estonian: narkar, narkomaan
Finnish: narkomaani (fi), narkkari (fi) (slang), nisti (fi)
French: accro (fr) m or f, toxicomane (fr) m, drogué (fr) m
German: Junkie (de) m or f, Drogensüchtiger (de), Drogenabhängiger (de)
Greek: τοξικομανής (el) m or f (toxikomanís), ναρκομανής (el) m or f (narkomanís)
Hebrew: נַרְקוֹמָן‎ (he) m (narqomán), נַרְקוֹמָנִים‎ m pl (narqománim), נַרְקוֹמָנִית‎ f (narqománit), נַרְקוֹמָנִיּוֹת‎ f pl (narqomániyot)
Hungarian: kábítószer-élvező, narkós (hu), heroinfüggő

Icelandic: dópisti (is) m
Irish: andúileach m, andúileach drugaí m
Japanese: ジャンキー (jankī), 麻薬常習者 (まやくじょうしゅうしゃ, mayakujōshūsha), 麻薬中毒者 (まやくちゅうどくしゃ, mayakuchūdokusha)
Korean: 마약중독자 (mayakjungdokja), 중독자 (ko) (jungdokja)
Polish: narkoman (pl), ćpun (pl) (slang)
Portuguese: drogado (pt) m, viciado (pt) m
Russian: наркома́н (ru) m (narkomán), наркома́нка (ru) f (narkománka), джа́нки m or f (džánki)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: нарко̀ма̄н m, нарко̀ма̄нка f

Roman: narkòmān (sh) m, narkòmānka (sh) f, narkić m (slang, diminutive)
Spanish: yonqui (slang, Anglicism), drogadicto (es) m
Swedish: narkoman (sv) c, pundare (sv) c, knarkare (sv) c
Turkish: keş (tr), esrarkeş (tr), eroinman (tr)

enthusiast

Chinese:
Mandarin: 愛好者 (zh), 爱好者 (zh) (àihàozhě), 迷 (zh) (mí) (used as a suffix)
Finnish: hullu (fi)

junkie m or f (plural junkies)

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