Green’s Dictionary of Slang

an all-purpose term of approval, worked out, content, satisfactory, supplied with drugs etc.

1983		A. Payne ‘Senior Citizen Caine’ in Minder [TV script] 64: caine: You in a spot of bother, Arthur? arthur: No, no, everything’s sorted, thank you Cecil.
1996		P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] When I get out, that’s the time to get meself sorted [...] I’m gonna go down and see Duffo about getting a turn-on.
1998		M. Newall ‘Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knight’ in Indep. Weekend Rev. 26 Dec. 1: Kyng Arthur said it would be sortede. Saye no more.
2006		G. Malkani Londonstani (2007) 30: If you hang around with sorted people then other people’ll think you’re safe yourself.
2009		T. Black Gutted 228: Avoided the hails of skag merchants, yelling: ‘You sorted, pal?’.
2009		J. Joso Soothing Music for Stray Cats 198: I’m gonna get all twitchy again if I don’t have a smoke – found the bastards. Sorted!
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 329: Jenna wants Jesus sorted once and for all.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 179: He’ll tap up his mother and sisters, go to Johnny Swan’s, get sorted.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 181: He doubted that there’d be harm done in having Franko sorted.
2020		G. Disher Consolation 335: ‘All sorted,’ Hirsch said, pocketing his phone.
2022		A. Parks May God Forgive 348: ‘It was sorted! It was all fixed’.
2023		M. Herron Secret Hours 253: ‘You seem pretty sorted’.