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junkie
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junkie
Popular health A popular term for a person, usually an IV narcotic abusing addict, whose life is disorganized vis-á-vis family and societal structure, whose existence revolves around obtaining–often through theft, prostitution or other illicit means of another 'fix' of narcotic. See Cold turkey, Shooting galleries.


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Bone Yard Boats, the one-of-a-kind service for true antique boat junkies, has been taken over by a new skipper.
These are imaginative tales, set along "Short Street" where junkies, drunks, deadbeats and worse are neighbors live alongside decent people struggling to survive and intractibly stubborn individuals.
Just as investors can buy futures contracts on the price of pork bellies, political junkies can risk real money on political outcomes--such as, in the graph below, the 2004 Democratic nomination.
 
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