chronic
/ˈkɹɑ.nɪk/ nom C2En français : marijuana de qualité, maladie chronique, malade chronique
- Marijuana, typically of high quality.
- 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.
- A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.
Pluriel chronics
Dans la bibliothèque
The ticker began to reel out jerkily its fitful coils of tape, the desk telephone had a chronic attack of buzzing.
This was one of his parts in the popular comedy he was performing,—a make-up he had adopted and which suited him about as well as the masks worn on the classic stage by paternal actors, who seen from one side, were the image of geniality, and from the other showed lips drawn down in chronic ill-temper.
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