shitfaced adj.
1. stupid, ignorant.
Sel. Letters (1981) 351: Some shitfaced critic writes Mr. Hemingway retires to his comfortable library to write about despair. | letter 5/6 Jan. in Baker||
Tasmanian Babes Fiasco (1998) 156: No kidding [...] a lot of shit-faced drunken S.P.A. yobs staggered on to the stage and sang, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’. |
2. drunk, usu. excessively also as adv.
AS XXXVIII:3174: Some of the less frequent, but apparently equally traditional, adjectives are: [...] shit-faced. | ‘Kansas University Sl.: A New Generation’ in||
Moonshine War 23: ‘The son of a bitch, he could get shitfaced and fall off his porch five times an evening and never say more’n ouch’. | ||
(con. 1950s) Age of Rock 2 (1970) 99: Getting [...] shit-faced, loaded, smashed, plowed. | ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen||
Semi-Tough 197: Unfortunately—heh, heh—I was shit-face and don’t remember much. | ||
Patriot Game (1985) 183: We’d [...] gotten absolutely shitfaced. | ||
(con. 1960) My Secret Hist. (1990) 118: God, are you shit-faced. | ||
Heathers [film script] Okay, just as long as it’s not one of those nights when they get shit-faced and take us to a pasture to tip cows. | ||
‘Messman on C.E.’s Altar’ in Passing Strange (2015) 16: Messman was mentally stepping out of the cesspool of his miserable shit-faced existence. | ||
Homeboy 240: Mister Fab came back [...] shitfaced and still wearing the Ruger Redhawk .357. | ||
Pugilist at Rest 219: I’m shitfaced and hung over at the same time. | ||
Campus Sl. Sept. 5: shitty – drunk. | ||
Lucky You 75: They were shitfaced by the time the check came. | ||
Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] ‘[T]hey take gallons of piss with them so they can get completely shitfaced’. | ||
Guardian Weekend 29 Jan. 12: We’d go out and get absolutely shit-faced. | ||
Campus Sl. Apr. 6: shitfaced – drunk. | ||
PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 128: Basically getting shit-faced and thowing the lips on any bird that came into my line of vision. | ||
Lush Life 444: ‘Are you too shitfaced for this?’ ‘No, I’m good’ . | ||
Viva La Madness 202: Try being here at three in the morning [...] everyone outta their nut, shitfaced. | ||
Finders Keepers (2016) 74: Not just a little loaded either - standing-up, falling-down shitfaced drunk. | ||
Dead Man’s Trousers 21: Shit-faced at altitude again. | ||
Border [ebook] Eddie could just sit in there and get pleasantly shit-faced. | ||
Braywatch 39: The kid is [...] shit-faced. | ||
April Dead 68: ‘Could have been an elephant in the club, I wouldn’t remember it. I was shit-faced’. | ||
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit 259: ‘Can we just use the surveillance video to prove how shitfaced this guy is?’. |
3. under the influence of cannabis; occas. other drugs (see cit. 2000).
Campus Sl. Apr. 3: shit-faced – [...] After three joints Bill was shit-faced. | ||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 214: ‘You look shitfaced [...] gotta eyes like two pissholes in the snow’. | ||
Reach 15: She gave me a sweet albeit shitfaced smile. | ||
Royal Family 492: One time on lithium I got so shitfaced. | ||
Triggerfish Twist (2002) 87: ‘How do you feel?’ asked Bernie. Coleman looked slowly around the room. ‘[...] pie-eyed, glass-eyed, shit-faced, blue-faced, [...].’. | ||
Urban Grimshaw 84: Two teenage girls were [...] smoking from a homemade bong [...] Both were completely shit-faced. | ||
Truth 115: Saw her yesterday near the market [...] With streeters. Shitfaced. | ||
Cherry 157: These were some fucking brownies. They tasted like straight weed: you could hardly taste anything else [...] We got shitfaced on these fucking things. |
4. a general intensifier: total, complete.
(con. 1960s) Wanderers 141: What could have been a shit-faced blast turned into a wake. | ||
(con. 1969) Dispatches 44: At the bottom was the shitface grunt, at the top a Command trinity. | ||
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut [film script] Oh, you shitfaced cockmaster! | ||
Kill Your Darlings 229: Fuck off, Greg, you shit-faced lying little cunt. |
5. depressed.
Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 1: People who had bet against him would [...] have shitface, upset facial expressions. |
6. shocked.
Brown Bread in Wengen [ebook] He went total shitfaced. [...] Reckoned he might get a ticker job on the fucking spot. |