junk sick

adjective

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.

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Meanings

adjective

alternative junk-sick

  1. slangExperiencing 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.

    I checked into the hospital junk sick and spent four days there […]

    1953, William S. Burroughs, The Yagé Letters
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    […] 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 […]

    1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 4

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
dope sick
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