ADDICT


Meaning of ADDICT in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a drug addict (= someone who cannot stop taking drugs )

At 20 Steve was a drug addict, unemployed and lonely.

drug addict

heroin addict

a heroin addict

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

cocaine

He's a cocaine addict , and recently his behaviour has deteriorated rapidly.

Rank, a cocaine addict , commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.

drug

Unfortunately, much of the opium produced by the plants ends up in the bloodstreams of drug addicts .

At 17 he was a drug addict .

The Marquis of Blandford, a former drug addict , married Becky in 1990.

Habitual petty thieves and drug addicts dumped on top of their already bulging caseload become their newest clients.

No, a drug addict doesn't get any help.

The people look furtive, like drug addicts , as they take them out in stacks of four or five.

Andrew and Wendy plan to work with drug addicts in Hong Kong and they will soon embark on a two-month trial period.

But when I got to high school, my parents were calling me a drug addict anyway.

heroin

I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.

Drug warriors frequently remind us that there are few cocaine or heroin addicts who did not smoke marijuana first.

Only with heroin addicts , that can be fatal a lot faster than with smokers.

There was this other guy who was either an aging rocker or a heroin addict , or both.

Frankfurt has 10,000 registered heroin addicts .

We know he's a heroin addict .

She was sharing a room with a girl called Anita, an ex heroin addict .

■ VERB

become

Doug felt momentarily sorry for this man, who had become an addict through no fault of his own.

I did not take to the streets, I did not become a crack addict .

You will probably become an addict and spend much time over the Christmas holiday on fringes for stoles and scarves as well!

Allowed free access to their own reward centers, many of the rats became hopeless lever addicts .

Pintsch had become an addict of the hobby early in the thirties, as had most of his friends.

I became a total bird addict .

I have in fact become something of an addict of detector technology.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A lot of women drug addicts become prostitutes in order to get money to buy drugs.

a television addict

Heroin addicts run an increased risk of getting AIDS.

It's difficult for most smokers to admit that they are addicts.

Many addicts refuse to go to treatment centers.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

And strict application of the law would deny an addict the possibility of rehabilitation.

Here they began a small home for alcoholics and drug addicts.

I was a recovering heroin addict who befriends Nastassja Kinski's character.

It had kept all but the most enthusiastic golf addicts indoors.

Rank, a cocaine addict , commits suicide, but his followers continue his work.

Read in studio Former drug abusers fear addicts could die if a rehabilitation centre is forced to close.

She said she had seen no evidence that the abandoned house was used by drug addicts.

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