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Pronunciation
Adjective
junk sick
- (slang) Experiencing the nausea sometimes suffered by the user of a narcotic the following day, or after the effects of the drug begin to wear off, often with flulike symptoms.
1953, William S. Burroughs, The Yagé Letters:I checked into the hospital junk sick and spent four days there
1962 , William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 4: a few old relics from hop smoking times, spectral janitors, grey as ashes, phantom porters sweeping out dusty halls with a slow old man's hand, coughing and spitting in the junk-sick dawn
Usage notes
- Used especially in reference to heroin use.
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