Meaning of Chronic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Marijuana, typically of high quality.
   countable, slang, uncountable
2. 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.
   countable, uncountable
3. A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“It's ironic, I had the brew, she had the chronic”

“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.”

“Wernersvill asylum is now practically filled, and, as it is peopled with able-bodied chronics, there will be but little annual movement of patients.”

“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.”

“Of fifty-five boys scoring four or more, fifteen were chronic offenders (out of twenty-three chronics altogether) […]”

“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.”

“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.”

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