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addict

ad·dict [ áddikt ] (plural ad·dicts)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. somebody dependent on drug: somebody who is physiologically or psychologically dependent on a potentially harmful drug

2. enthusiast: somebody who is very interested in a particular thing and devotes a lot of time to it
soap opera addicts

[Mid-16th century. < Latin addictus, past participle of addicere "award, devote" < dicere "say"]
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