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单词 junk sick
释义

junk sick

See also: junk-sick

English

Alternative forms

  • junk-sick

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.
    • 1953, William S. Burroughs, The Yagé Letters:
      I checked into the hospital junk sick and spent four days there []
    • 1962 [1959], 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 []

Usage notes

  • Used especially in reference to heroin use.

See also

  • dope sick
  • junkie
  • strung out
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