🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

중독자

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /jungdokja/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Crackhead/ˈkrækˌhɛd/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"정부는 약물 중독자를 위한 재활 프로그램을 늘리고 있다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who is heavily addicted to crack cocaine.

    "The documentary explored the devastating social impact of the epidemic on local communities and individual crackheads."
  2. 2

    A derogatory slang term for someone who behaves erratically, frantically, or obsessively.

    "He was acting like a total crackhead trying to clean the entire house at three in the morning."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term is a compound of 'crack' (referring to crack cocaine, which emerged in the early 1980s and makes a crackling sound when smoked) and 'head' (slang suffix denoting a habitual user of a specific drug). It entered American slang in the mid-1980s during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic to describe a dependent addict.

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