a person who is unable to stop using or doing something as a habit, especially something harmful 吸毒成瘾的人;瘾君子 a heroin/drug addict 海洛因/毒品上瘾者 a gambling/social media addict 赌博/社交媒体上瘾者 the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts 吸毒者的治疗和康复 Many young boys become computer addicts. 许多男孩子小小年纪就迷上了电脑。 I used to be a video game addict—I literally spent all my free time playing games. 我过去是个电子游戏迷,我简直是把所有空余时间都花在打游戏上了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- cocaine
- drug
- heroin
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Word Originearly 20th cent.: from the obsolete verb addict, which was a back-formation from addicted.