Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also junkey, junky) used of one who is addicted to narcotics; pertaining to the world of narcotics.

1951		W. Burroughs letter May in Harris (1993) 92: Dave and I have parted company, and I hope I never see his junky pan again.
1954		Kerouac letter May in Charters I (1995) 409: I recently had an affair with a junkey girl.
1959		W. Burroughs Naked Lunch (1968) 24: [We] shrieked junky curses at one another.
1961		T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 97: ‘I really let them in on the junkie world’.
1969		‘Iceberg Slim’ Pimp 86: It was a junkie joint.
1974		V.E. Smith Jones Men 15: Aww, you junkie motherfuckers!
1978		F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 30: That square mile of London vice where [...] every narrow, twisting alley is infested with junkie muggers.
1981		H. Gould Fort Apache, The Bronx 49: Pasty-faced Irish junkie bitch.
1998		T. Curtis ‘Suicide Note’ in Home Suspect Device 33: An old junkie friend had [...] attempted to sell me Temazepam and Valium.
2000		Sun. Times News Rev. 12 Mar. 1: Explaining the finer points of junkie-speak.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 359: Nicksy has no time for the television or his friend’s junky observations.
2012		D. Whish-Wilson ‘In Savage Freedom’ in Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] Hunting the junkie and his junkie son.
2015		J. Stahl OG Dad 54: You can be off the hard stuff for decades, and, at mention of a freebie, your brain just kicks right back to junky-think.
2021		T. Swerdlow Straight Dope [ebook] [A] certain type of junkie girl when you ran into her all smacked back.
2023		A. Nette Orphan Road 121: Her father, a junkie armed robber.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 389: [C]arted off to the hospital to bring a junkie tot into the world.

2. addicted to anything.

1985

N. Pileggi Wiseguy (2001) 144: The guy [...] was a junkie gambler.

3. addictive.

1979

H. Feldman et al. Angel Dust 113: The attitude expressed now toward PCP by this group is one of having ‘grown up’ and away from a ‘junky’ drug.