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opium-eaters

opium-eaters is the plural of opium-eater.

Meaning of opium-eater

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

Questions about opium-eaters

What is opium-eaters the plural of?
Opium-eaters is the plural of opium-eater.

Words near opium-eaters in the dictionary

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

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