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opium-eater

opium-eater noun: a person who uses opium as a recreational drug; an opium addict.

Noun

opium-eater (plural opium-eaters)

  1. A person who uses opium as a recreational drug; an opium addict.
    • Turkish opium-eaters it seems, are absurd enough to sit, like so many equestrian statues, on logs of wood as stupid as themselves.1823, Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, page 103
    • The mind (brain), utterly prostrate after the effect had ceased, required still more imperatively than in the case of the opium-eater a fresh supply to the deceased imagination[.]1868, John P. Brown, The Dervishes: Or, Oriental Spiritualism, page 309

Forms of opium-eater

pluralopium-eaters

Questions about opium-eater

What does opium-eater mean?
Opium-eater means a person who uses opium as a recreational drug; an opium addict.
What part of speech is opium-eater?
Opium-eater is a noun.
What is the plural of opium-eater?
The plural of opium-eater is opium-eaters.

Words near opium-eater in the dictionary

  1. opium pipes
  2. opium poppies
  3. opium poppy
  4. Opium War
  5. Opium Wars
  6. opium-eater
  7. opium-eaters
  8. opium-eating
  9. opiumism
  10. opiumist
  11. opiumists

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