junkie

See also: Junkie

English

junk (“narcotic drug”) +‎ -ie

junkie (plural junkies)

(slang, pejorative) 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

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, 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, f (plural junkies)

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