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junkie

noun
🔊/ˈdʒʌŋki/
🔊/ˈdʒʌŋki/
(also junky)
(informal)
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  1. a drug addict有毒瘾者；吸毒成瘾者 (= a person who is unable to stop taking dangerous drugs)Topics Social issuesc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryJunkie is used after these nouns:
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    Word Origin1920s (originally US): from junk ‘heroin’.