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junk sick

junk sick adjective: 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.

Adjective

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.
    • I checked into the hospital junk sick and spent four days there […]1953, William S. Burroughs, The Yagé Letters
    • […] 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 […]1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 4

Forms of junk sick

alternative formjunk-sick

Words formed from junk sick

Questions about junk sick

What does junk sick mean?
Junk sick means 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.
What part of speech is junk sick?
Junk sick is an adjective.

Words near junk sick in the dictionary

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