habit

Noun

• excessive use of drugs

• attire that is typically worn by a horseback rider (especially a woman's attire)

• the general form or mode of growth (especially of a plant or crystal)
  • a shrub of spreading habit
    

• a distinctive attire worn by a member of a religious order

• (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
  • owls have nocturnal habits
    
  • she had a habit twirling the ends of her hair
    
  • long use had hardened him to it
    

• an established custom
  • it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening
    

Verb

• put a habit on

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  substance abuse , drug abuse , riding habit , use , wont