Definitions For Speedfreak

Noun

SPEEDFREAK (plural SPEEDFREAKs) (slang) An addict or habitual user of amphetamines, methamphetamines, or similar stimulant, stimulating drugs. (slang) A person who enjoys driving, riding motorcycles, etc. at high speeds.

Quotations

1973, Richard Mills, Young Outsiders: A Study of Alternative Communities, Pantheon Books: 1973, page 58: : Jimmy: the journal of a speedfreak I have been around the West End two or three years.... 1984, Kenneth Blum, Handbook of Abusable Drugs, Gardner Press: 1984, page 312: : Their level of abuse is holding steady, and the intravenous injection of large amounts, the speedfreak phenomenon noted during the 1960's, almost has disappeared. 2004, Carol Clerk, The Saga of Hawkwind, Omnibus Press: 2004, page 100: : New boy, new speedfreak, sings song in two takes.... 'The speedfreak upstart - how dare he? Why isn't it me?