It can be used for instance to a workaholic, or for anybody obsessed with something like a television programme, always watching a particular soap, shall we say.
It was their intense relationship - Gates the workaholic code writer and competitor, Allen the dreamy visionary - that laid the first brick in the foundation of Microsoft.
Look at all the workaholics who work themselves, literally—most of the time, figuratively—to death, but they're doing it because they don't realize that the most important machine in your life is your body.
As we previously learned, the heart is the ultimate workaholic, and it pushes your body's complete supply of blood through your blood vessels over 1,000 times a day.