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to junkie
noun
A narcotics addict, especially referring to heroin users.
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· KATE MOSS confesses to me that she is still struggling to get over the break-up of her relationship to junkie rocker PETE DOHERTY.
He leans forward in his leather chair and looks at me, junkie to junkie.
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Even heroin, once considered the last outpost on the way to junkie-town, is now disturbingly common.
Later that year, he returned to Broadway to play junkie Johnny Pope in Michael V. Gazzo's drama "A Hatful of Rain," which garnered Gazzara a Tony Award nomination.
He is more likely than other Americans to be poor and poorly educated, to have a sorry employment record, to be a junkie, to be mentally ill, and to be a member of a minority group.
Trying to get a junkie to snitch isn't as easy as it sounds since it's hard to get a fix when you're dead.
To go from junkie to TV presenter might sound like a radical transformation, but in a way it was just more of the same.
But oil revenues are to the Middle East what heroin is to the junkie.
Mr. Comey said the pills were not going "to some junkie on the street corner," but to teenagers.
The original referred to "fellow junkie Pete Doherty".
It's the perfect soundtrack to the junkie life.
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