Clean and Hooked

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Clean adjective - Free from dirt or stain.

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Hooked is an antonym for clean.

Nearby Words: clear, cleaned, cleanup, clearing, cleanly

Hooked adjective - Curved down like an eagle's beak.

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Clean is an antonym for hooked.

Nearby Words: hook, hooker, hooking, hooky

The most blatant example is probably "Cracked", wherein a clean-cut, rather naive thirteen-year-old girl tries crack, rapidly gets hooked, and dies horribly over the course of only a few weeks.

Source: Series / In the Heat of the Night
Averted with drug dealer Skizz in the early Fearless books: He isn't trying to force anyone to get hooked and he only goes after Mary Moss (who is working on getting clean) because she still owes him five-hundred dollars.

Source: The Aggressive Drug Dealer
Season 2, Episode 22: When Asuna finally meets Yuuki in the real world, she sees her in a sterile clean room, her body ravaged by AIDS and hooked up to a VR device that she has been using continuously for years.

Source: Light Novel / Sword Art Online

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