Definitions

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  • adjective Resembling heroin or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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heroin +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Drug abusers can tamper with such products and get all the effects of a drug at once, creating a heroinlike high.

    Pain Drugs to Get New Restrictions 2009

  • As someone who is completely free of any negative issues with food after a twelve-year, heroinlike addiction to it eventually endangered my life, I’m not here to tell you what you already know about psychoanalytic or pharmaceutical approaches to food addiction.

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

  • As someone who is completely free of any negative issues with food after a twelve-year, heroinlike addiction to it eventually endangered my life, I’m not here to tell you what you already know about psychoanalytic or pharmaceutical approaches to food addiction.

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

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