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newsaholic

newsaholic noun: one who is obsessed with news; a person who likes to stay up-to-date with news.

Noun

newsaholic (plural newsaholics)

  1. One who is obsessed with news; a person who likes to stay up-to-date with news.
    • A third-grader in Bristol, Maine, recalled the shock of seeing his “hard-boiled” teacher weeping as she delivered the bad news to her class, and he attributed his later fascination with politics and history to that single weekend in November 1963. “I've been a newsaholic ever since,” said Norm...2013, Alice L. George, The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Political Trauma and American Memory, Routledge, →ISBN, pages 98–99

Forms of newsaholic

pluralnewsaholics

Origin of newsaholic

From news + -aholic.

Questions about newsaholic

What does newsaholic mean?
Newsaholic means one who is obsessed with news; a person who likes to stay up-to-date with news.
What part of speech is newsaholic?
Newsaholic is a noun.
What is the plural of newsaholic?
The plural of newsaholic is newsaholics.

Words near newsaholic in the dictionary

  1. news-letter
  2. newsagencies
  3. newsagency
  4. newsagent
  5. newsagents
  6. newsaholic
  7. newsaholics
  8. newsbar
  9. newsbars
  10. newsbeat
  11. newsbeats

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