burning-down habit n.
an extremely heavy addiction to narcotics.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Junkie (1966) 155: Burning Down Habit, an Oil Burner Habit . . . A heavy habit. | |
| Walk on the Wild Side 252: A man would be a fool not to trade off one little flea-powder habit for a real burning-down one, wouldn’t he? |