📚 Junkie, noun. 🔉 /ˈdʒʌŋki/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (informal): A drug addict. ❗️ Examples: 1. I thought my destiny was to be a heroin addict, a junkie for the rest of my life; I couldn't stop myself and I didn't know a way out. 2. For the past eight years, Moira's been on methadone, a drug most imagine only junkies use to get off heroin. 3. Only two respondents in this sample were currently relapsing addicts / junkies. 4. Whether you are a junky or a functional addict, heroin runs your life. 5. Teenage drug users in Alice Springs take offence to being called addicts, junkies, criminals and so on. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic