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"2": "alcoholic"
},
"expansion": "Back-formation from alcoholic",
"name": "back-form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Back-formation from alcoholic.",
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"categories": [
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"name": "English back-formations",
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},
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"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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{
"ref": "2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties",
"text": "Trump was also a horndog, a braggart, and a social-media-holic—just like voters were.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Denotes addiction to the substance or activity of the stem word."
],
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"addiction",
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],
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"word": "-aholic"
},
{
"word": "-oholic"
}
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}
],
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"ref": "2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties",
"text": "Trump was also a horndog, a braggart, and a social-media-holic—just like voters were.",
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