Definitions
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- adjective Having the quality (or being like)
junk , cheap or of low quality. - noun slang, pejorative Alternative spelling of
junkie .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a narcotics addict
- noun someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction
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Examples
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Brian is the real deal, not some adrenalin junky tear assing around messing up things for everyone else.
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Brian is the real deal, not some adrenalin junky tear assing around messing up things for everyone else.
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He was not an “adrenalin junky” – a term that fits so many hyped newscasters.
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On my pumpkin junky problem, but dammit, now Dino's doing a contest ... and I live in the same city so could conceivably figure out which school the judge goes to & bribe him with ... hmmm I wonder ...
I was going to go Cold Turkey Candace 2005
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Thea’s life as an adrenalin junky becomes a Greek Tragedy after mythological gods kill her boyfriend and destroy her town.
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On the other hand, being a junky has been the occasion of meeting many charming people (such as yourself, dear Lombard) on this blog, so I submit that there are worse pathologies from which one might suffer.
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Filkins, an insanely intrepid reporter and adrenaline junky, which is to say a quintessential war correspondent, is more committed to getting the story than to his own safety or comfort.
The War We Don't Want to See Halpern, Sue 2008
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Either that, or take the Rush route and just become an oxycontin junky.
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I mean, I'm not yer average ADD-addled adrenalin junky.
King Kong... Hal Duncan 2005
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I mean, I'm not yer average ADD-addled adrenalin junky.
Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005
adoarns commented on the word junky
A pert description of lungs that are full of rhonchi, râles, and other wet, nasty, disease sounds.
January 26, 2008