What is "junkies"

Usage examples of "junkies".

This district of San Francisco is where the hookers and the junkies and the people of that nature generally congregate.

As I waited, I watched the people in wheelchairs, the junkies, the crack addicts, and the hookers go by.

Cop problems attract more publicity, which then attracts fad-salesmen and hustlers -- which means money, and that attracts junkies and jack-rollers.

Especially on a morning like this with a mob of wild junkies locked out of the hall bathroom and maybe knowing that No.

Our opening shot -- the midnight registration campaign -- had been ramrodded by bearded heads: Mike Solheim and Pierre Landry, who worked the streets and bars for head voters like wild junkies, in the face of near-total apathy.

The Washington Post has a half-dozen of the best reporters in America working every tangent of the Watergate story like wild-eyed junkies set adrift, with no warning, to find their next connection.

And, despite all its menacing implications, the desperate plight of the national economy was not a story that called up the same kind of journalistic adrenaline that Washington and most of the country had been living on for so long that the prospect of giving it up caused a serious panic in the ranks of all the Watergate junkies who never even knew they were hooked until the cold turkey swooped into their closets.

Both the politician and the pawnbroker are doomed to live like junkies, hooked on the mutant energy of their own unexplainable addictions.

They were either junkies, or trying too hard, and neither appealed to her.

There were squatters in the buildings, runaway teenagers and less innocent inhabitants: junkies, bikers, bums, crazy people who were no longer legally crazy once the public money to keep them in an institution dried up.

The Wampyr were dangerous enough without an army of fanatic blood junkies as followers.

The blood junkies died and fell, but there were always more to take their place.

The surviving blood junkies turned and ran, and as quickly as that it was all over.

The world network of junkies, tuned on a cord of rancid jissom, tying up in furnished rooms, shivering in the junk-sick morning.

In all the course of my practices, I have never seen a schizophrenic junky, and junkies are mostly of the schizo physical type.