junkie

4 definitions • 3 examples

someone who cannot stop taking illegal drugs

someone who wants to have or do something all the time:

a computer/TV junkie

a publicity junkie

a person who regularly takes and is dependent on illegal drugs, esp. heroin

humorous A junkie is also a person who enjoys or is interested in a particular activity to an extreme:

If you want to follow politics, basically you have to become a talk-show junkie.