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DRUG USER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who takes drugs

Synonyms:

drug user; substance abuser; user

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("drug user" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drug user"):

addict (someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms)

head (a user of (usually soft) drugs)

tripper ((slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations)

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