drug addict

1. 1.

   a narcotics addict

   Synonymsjunkiejunky

   Broaderaddict

   Narrowercocaine addictcrack addictheroin addictopium addictwithdrawer

Questions about drug addict

What does drug addict mean?

drug addict means "a narcotics addict".

What is another word for drug addict?

Close synonyms include junkie, junky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drug addict a common word?

drug addict is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.