half+drunk
111mops and brooms — 1. Half drunk 2. Out of sorts • • • Main Entry: ↑mop …
112en|tre deux vins — «ahn truh der van», French. 1. half drunk. 2. (literally) between two wines …
113stoned — drunk or under the influence of illegal narcotics It is hard to see what the discomfort of St Stephen and others had to do with this common use. The day Butler s Military Cross was gazetted they both got stoned out of their minds. (Price …
114sloshed — drunk To slosh is to be a glutton but there is also the imagery of an over full container: ... her career of piss artistry, when she could still pretend she got sloshed out of not knowing about alcohol. (Amis, 1986) Usually as half… …
115stewed — drunk The common culinary imagery: ... most of the time in camp... poor old Abel was stewed. (Keneally, 1979 Abel was not in the hands of cannibals) You are no less drunk if half stewed. Sometimes also of being under the influence …
116under the influence — drunk Shortened form of the legal jargon under the influence of drink or drugs. Half under is no less drunk …
117cocked — drunk Like a firearm prior to discharge rather than from any association with cock eyed. As usual in drunken terms, the half equals the whole: Half cock d and canty, hyem we got. (T. Wilson, 1843 canty means cheerful) …
118foxed — drunk Literally, deceived, and so a variant of the obsolete deceived in liquor, which seeks to imply it was not your fault: ... poured drink into himself until he was completely foxed. (Fraser, 1970) As usual, the half is the same as …
119slewed — drunk Not going straight: Mr Hornby was just a bit slewed by the liquor he d taken. (Russell, c.1900) Also as half slewed, where as usual the half equals the whole …
120canned — drunk The usual culinary imagery, also owing something to having a can on. Half canned means the same thing …