junk-sick

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Definition of junk-sick in English English dictionary

variation of junk sick

Of or pertaining to the nausea sometimes suffered by the user of a narcotic the following day, or after the effects of the drug begin to wear off

I checked into the hospital junk sick and spent four days there ... - William S. Burroughs, from The Yagé Letters, 1953.

Of or pertaining to withdrawal symptoms when referring to the use of narcotics, often having flu-like symptoms

... 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 ... - William S. Burroughs, from Naked Lunch, 1959.