| 释义 |
junkie slang (orig. U.S.).|ˈdʒʌŋkɪ|
Also junkey, junky.
[f. junk n.2 1 e + -ie.]
A drug-addict; also occas., a drug-peddler. Also attrib. or as adj. (chiefly in form junky).
1923[see gun n. 3 e]. 1929Flynn's 2 Feb. 125/2 He's a confirmed ‘junkie’ and, of course, he'll get hold of it if he can. 1930Time & Tide 20 Sept. 1181 He became a recognised junky and earned his living as a useful subordinate member of a drug-traffic gang. 1930Detective Fiction Weekly 20 Dec. 362 (heading) Undercover man Murray follows the junkey trail into the greatest city's street of evil. 1949N. Algren Man with Golden Arm 25 You're not a student any more... Junkie—you're hooked. 1951N.Y. Times (City ed.) 27 June 19/5 An addict who sells narcotics, for which he usually gets his own daily supply, is called a ‘junkie’, he explained, and they hang out in taverns and cafes until the police raid them. 1959W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 13 He would suck the juice right out of every junky he ran down. Ibid. 53 He spoke in his dead, junky whisper. 1959C. MacInnes Absolute Beginners 68 If you have a friend who's a junkie..you soon discover there's no point whatever discussing his addiction. 1969Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 16 May 33/2 Combined with my appetite-killing pills and my tranquillisers I was possibly the junkiest man on the [ski] slopes. 1970Times 22 Sept. 10/4 Over-prescribing by the notorious junkie doctors. 1971Daily Tel. 18 June 17/3 They plan to tour villages showing a film about ‘junkies’ and giving lectures to youngsters about the dangers of drugs. 1972J. Brown Chancer iv. 59 Lacerated hands, the hands of junkies, scarred where needles had searched for veins. 1973Black World May 47 Talk about how to get more money, how to get educated, how to have scientists for children rather than junkies. |