habitué

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He yielded to every vice that crossed his path; he stole, he drank, he became a morphine habitué, he sniffed cocaine, acquired gonorrhœa and syphilis in his promiscuous sexual trends, and lastly yielded to sexual perversion.

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  1. A habitual frequenter of any place, especially one of amusement, recreation, and the like: as, an habitué of the billiard-room. The habitués of the clubs and of West End social circles. R. J. Hinton, Eng. Rad. Leaders, p. 33.

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  1. French, properly past participle of habituer, accustom: see habituate.
 

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