junk sick

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junk sick

  1. (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

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  • Used especially in reference to heroin use.

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