[Ads-l] Antedating of "Junkie"

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junkie (OED 1923)

1922 Evening World (New York) 24 Mar. 20/3 (Newspapers.com)

Every fibre of your being craves for the stuff, and it was no trick at all for me to get the drugs and sell them to the junkies.

Fred Shapiro

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