monster

n. an addiction. Subjects: English, Drugs

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Citations: 1991 Kamran Hakim (hakim@bigq.enet.dec.com) Usenet: soc.culture.misc (May 16) “Who says I am an addict?”: It is an addiction which has within it philosophical, as well as conceptual and behavioral elements, that make it even harder to deal with. Under the shadow of unimportance, indifference, and humor, this monster keeps growing within us. 1993 Glenn E. Rice Kansas City Star (Kan., Mo.) (Apr. 11) “Feeding the monster: Life of a cocaine addict”: The $30 worth of hits turned into a $3,000-a-month monster. Now the monster is Irene’s top priority. She’s been on crack three years. Three times in rehab. Three times a failure. “This is not an addiction that you can click off and on like a light switch,” she said. “You gotta set a goal and you work up towards that goal.” 1998 [tempslave@hotmail.com] Usenet: alt.support.stop-smoking (June 29) “6 days after surgery, struggling”: My mother, who i do not smoke around, has been here and she doesnt even know why Im coughing. She found i smoke years ago but she doesnt know the symptoms enough to see the monster in her son. And I dont have that heart to tell her why. She leaves tomorrow. No hospital imprisonment, no parental shame, just me and my monster. 2001 Caroline Graham Daily Mail (U.K.) (Oct. 7) “Mick was a great lover”: I truly believe some kids are born with this monster called addiction inside them. I just woke up my monster earlier than most. 2004 Rachel Sixsmith Bucks Free Press (Bucks, England) (Aug. 3) “D-Day + eight”: After six days without a meal, my monster was ravenous but by refusing to feed it, I was making him grow weaker. Eight days without a cigarette and my monster is now very weak and tired. 2004 Tom Mooney Providence Journal (R.I.) (Sept. 5) “Managing her ‘monster’”: As a heroin user, she never tracked how much she injected each day or how much money “the monster,” as she calls her addiction, demanded she raise.

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