Definition of be hooked

hooked

adjective

• addicted.

  He's hooked on prescription painkillers.

  • See more words with the same meaning: drug user.

  Last edited on Dec 27 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'drug user':
crack head	Definitions include: a person who acts like they are addicted to crack cocaine.
druggie	Definitions include: a habitual drug user.
burner	Definitions include: a handgun.
junkie	Definitions include: a drug addict.
crank whore	Definitions include: a female, habitual user of methamphetamine.
head	Definitions include: a person who has both street and book knowledge.
boof	Definitions include: acronym for "burned out old fart".
dope whore	Definitions include: a person who exchanges sex for drugs.
doper	Definitions include: a person who takes illegal drugs, or takes prescription drugs in a manner not prescribed.
junky	Definitions include: misspelling of junkie.
fried	Definitions include: under the influence of drugs, often LSD ("acid").
burned	Definitions include: having smoked so much marijuana that a person is slow, dumb, or act like they are under the influence when they aren't.
pill popper	Definitions include: a person who is addicted to pills.
(one's) highness	Definitions include: a person who is frequently, or at present, on drugs.
straight	Definitions include: fine; okay.
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Other terms relating to 'hook':
butt hook	Definitions include: jerk; bastard.
heezy	Definitions include: "hell".
hizzle	Definitions include: one's home, or place of living
hizzy	Definitions include: house.
hook	Definitions include: abbreviated form of "hook up".
hook a niggah up	Definitions include: a request to hook up a nigga, i.e. to give something to a person.
hooking	Definitions include: understanding or knowing.
hook, line, and sinker	Definitions include: completely.
hook up	Definitions include: a person who provides illegal drugs.
hook up with	Definitions include: See hook up.
let off the hook	Definitions include: See off the hook.
meat hooks	Definitions include: hands.
off da heezie	Definitions include: extreme; wild; awesome.
off da hook	Definitions include: alternate spelling of off the hook.
off tha hizzy	Definitions include: alternate spelling of off the hook.
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