junk sick
adj1
Slang Experiencing the nausea sometimes suffered by the user of a narcotic the following day, or after the effects of the drug begin to wear off, often with flulike symptoms.
- I checked into the hospital junk sick and spent four days there […]1953, William S. Burroughs, The Yagé Letters:
- […] 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 […]1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 4:
- Derived terms
- junk sickness
- Related terms
- dope sick, junkie, strung out