What is "junkie"

Usage examples of "junkie".

Revenge for the girl-child who had been no more than a shield, revenge for all the cluck heads and the junkies who had found willing and cooperative allies in their attempt at anesthetic self-destruction, revenge for all the non-white peoples of the world who had stumbled into the snares set by their own kind in the holy name of profit.

He had three gigs lined up over the weekend - a Saturday nighter at the Astoria with the regulars and then two club gigs as a member of a completely different Dead Junkies line-up with another set of local musicians.

The Dead Junkies had a couple of gigs over the weekend and he was expecting a bunch of musicians to descend on his home within the hour for a combined rehearsal and musical strategy session.

In thirty-two years he had seen the full pageant of human misery walk through his door - all ages, sexes, colours, shapes, sizes, and with every kink in the book: junkies, pushers, pros-ties, pimps, thieves, kooks, killers, you name it.

Kim wozencraft From the high of crystalline chemicals hitting the brain to the spacey patois of junkies and the roar of a shotgun going off in a secluded trailer, Kim Wozencraft has written a spectacular novel: as tough as Joseph Wambaugh, as gritty as broken glass, as shockingly real as it gets.

Cheap stuff, probably Mex-made: spic hairstyles on skinny junkie posers.

The eyes of every viewer panicked by retrovirus homophobic hysteria would be glued to the set, ready to see if the Democrats would endorse the pollution of their bodily fluids by lurking sodomites and junkies drooling contamination from every orifice.

He had hated being a morphine junkie, but he had liked how it made him feel.

The junkie remembered how to poke the needle through the foil cap on the morphine just so, then to invert the vial and pull back the stopper on the syringe.

Ticket stubs from a Cowboy Junkies concert, a Bon Jovi concert, a Billy Joel concert, a Paula Poundstone show.

I guess it would be accurate to say that Sammy addicts were the rodeo clowns of the junkie universe, the baddest, most functional and most trustworthy of their kind.

The waiter looks at him in disapproval, a buttonhead junkie going mad in his clean palm bar.

His information was reliable and despite his status as a junkie, he seemed to be trusted by the lower-level Camorristas who sold him drugs.

Drunks sit together, Cokeheads sit together, Crackheads sit together, Junkies sit together, Pillpoppers sit together.

The very people who had looked at him as if they were looking at a godthe students, ordinary fans, sports junkies in front of the TV sets, all those hooples who wanted a little piece of Go go Jojo, an autograph, a smile, a wave, or just the chance of being in the same place he was, breathing the same air he breathedeven they would avert their eyes!