chronic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɒn.ɪk/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˈkɹɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɹɔn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɹɒn.ək/
ipa: [ˈkɹɔ̟n.ək]
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: chronics
form: chronick
Etymology: From chronical, from Old French cronike, from Latin chronicus, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”). By surface analysis, chron- + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Pimp had been kicking it with one of the young jawns hanging around the apartment. She was real young and had bumpy skin and slum rings on every finger. She told us she was living next door with her grandmother while her mother was in jail, and she took us up to the roof to smoke some chronic.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 103:
synonyms: word: bhang
word: benj
word: boo
word: broccoli
word: bud
word: buddha
word: cannabis
word: cheeba
word: choof
word: daccha
word: dank
word: devil's lettuce
word: djamba
word: doja
word: doobage
word: dope
word: endo
word: gage
word: ganja
word: ganj
word: grass
word: green
word: greenery
word: hash
word: hashish
word: hemp
word: herb
word: Mary Jane
word: MJ
word: marihoochie
word: marijuana
word: Mary Joanna
word: method
word: mezz
word: muggle
word: mull
word: pot
word: puff
word: reefer
word: sens
word: sensimillia
word: sensimilla
word: shit
word: sweetleaf
word: tea
word: Texas tea
word: trees
word: twig
word: wacky tobaccy
word: weed
word: yarndie
word: zaza
word: zombie
glosses: Marijuana, typically of high quality.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.
examples: text: Wernersvill asylum is now practically filled, and, as it is peopled with able-bodied chronics, there will be but little annual movement of patients.
ref: 1895, Report of the Committee on Lunacy to the Board of Public Charities of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, page 9:
text: And then there were the chronics, not only those with marked pathology but life-long sufferers from "indigestion" or migraine, who had been passed around from doctor to doctor with nothing but temporary relief.
ref: 2001, Elizabeth Wright, A Brief Study Course in Homoeopathy, →ISBN, page 79:
text: Of fifty-five boys scoring four or more, fifteen were chronic offenders (out of twenty-three chronics altogether) […]
ref: 2003, Philip Bean, Crime: Critical Concepts in Sociology, page 376:
text: Most congregations are full of wonderful people, but these chronics are also present in many churches. They come in three varieties -- the chronic havers of personal problems, the chronic complainers, and the chronic workaholics.
ref: 2003, Lawrence W. Farris, Ten Commandments for Pastors New to a Congregation, →ISBN, page 59:
text: An Italian study (Francescato et al. 1979), which compared 137 women who had had more than one abortion with others who had aborted only once, revealed that the use of contraceptives was higher among the 'chronics', and that the contraceptives they employed were generally safer.
ref: 2006, Eva Pattis Zoja, Abortion: Loss and Renewal in the Search for Identity, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.