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noun

• Marijuana, typically of high quality.

• A condition of extended duration, either continuous or marked by frequent recurrence. Sometimes implies a condition which worsens with each recurrence, though that is not inherent in the term.

• A person who is chronic, such as a criminal reoffender or a person with chronic disease.

adjective

• Of a problem, that continues over an extended period of time.

  Example: chronic unemployment; chronic poverty; chronic anger; chronic life

• Prolonged or slow to heal.

  Example: chronic cough; chronic headache; chronic illness

• Of a person, suffering from an affliction that is prolonged or slow to heal.

  Example: Chronic patients must learn to live with their condition.

• Inveterate or habitual.

  Example: He's a chronic smoker.

• Very bad, awful.

  Example: That concert was chronic.

• Extremely serious.

  Example: They left him in a chronic condition.

• Good, great; "wicked".

  Example: That was cool, chronic in fact.