| a combining form extracted from alcoholic, occurring as the final element in compounds, often facetious nonce words, with the sense “a person who has an addiction to or obsession with some object or activity”: workaholic; chargeaholic. |
| -aholic or -oholic suff. One that is addicted to or compulsively in need of: workaholic; chocoholic. [From alteration of (alc)oholic.] |
