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adrenaline junkie

noun

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  1. One who is seemingly addicted to the sensation of exhilaration associated with risky…

    One who is seemingly addicted to the sensation of exhilaration associated with risky behaviors or exciting situations, and who actively seeks such opportunities.

    • Many football, basketball, and hockey players, boxers, wrestlers, cage fighters, hunters, bikers, NASCAR drivers, matadors, and rodeo cowboys are adrenaline junkies.
    • More than 300 daredevils parachuted off the nation's second-highest bridge in an annual ritual that attracts thousands of spectators. "Everybody out here is an adrenaline junkie," parachutist Mike Cleary, 27, of Milwaukee, said yesterday.
    • "I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie, so I love to go out there and do kind of crazy stuff, which is slightly outrageous, like bungee jumping, skydiving, surfing and that sort of stuff."

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