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Addict vs Speedfreak - What's the difference?

addict | speedfreak |

As nouns the difference between addict and speedfreak

is that addict is a person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug while speedfreak is (slang) an addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.

As a verb addict

is to cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug.

addict

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who is addicted, especially to a harmful drug
  • * He is an addict when it comes to chocolate cookies.
  • An adherent or fan (of something)

    • Derived terms

    * cyberaddict * drug addict * sex addict

    Synonyms

    * (person who is addicted) junkie (one addicted to a drug), slave * (adherent or fan) adherent, aficionado, devotee, enthusiast, fan, habitue * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause someone to become addicted, especially to a harmful drug
  • To involve oneself in something habitually, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
  • * (rfdate), (John Evelyn)
    • They addict themselves to the civil law.
  • * (rfdate) (Francis Beaumont) &
    • He is addicted to his study.
  • * (rfdate) (Adventurer)
    • That part of mankind that addict their minds to speculations.
  • * (rfdate) (Thomas Fuller)
    • His genius addicted him to the study of antiquity.
  • * (rfdate), (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
    • A man gross ... and addicted to low company.
  • (obsolete) To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.
  • * (rfdate) (John Evelyn)
  • * The land about is exceedingly addicted to wood, but the coldness of the place hinders the growth.

    • Synonyms

    * get (someone) hooked * (devote) consecrate, dedicate, devote * (adapt) adapt, fit

    Derived terms

    * addicting * addictive

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms

    speedfreak

    English

    Alternative forms

    * speed freak

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) An addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulating drugs.
  • (slang) A person who enjoys driving, riding motorcycles, etc. at high speeds.

    • Quotations

    *1973 , Richard Mills, Young Outsiders: A Study of Alternative Communities , Pantheon Books: 1973, page 58: *:Jimmy: the journal of a speedfreak I have been around the West End two or three years.... *1984 , Kenneth Blum, Handbook of Abusable Drugs , Gardner Press: 1984, page 312: *:Their level of abuse is holding steady, and the intravenous injection of large amounts, the speedfreak phenomenon noted during the 1960's, almost has disappeared. *2004 , Carol Clerk, The Saga of Hawkwind , Omnibus Press: 2004, page 100: *:New boy, new speedfreak', sings song in two takes.... 'The ' speedfreak upstart - how dare he? Why isn't it me?

    References

    *speedfreak'', in ''The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J - Z, by Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, Taylor & Francis, 2006, Page 1831.