hooked
/hʊkt/ adj [not gradable] infmlDefinition
› strongly attracted to something or someone: We were afraid she was getting hooked on painkillers, so we changed the medication. During the Olympics, we all got hooked on ice dancing.
(Definition of hooked adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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