Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US) drunk.

1957		P. Moore Chocolates for Breakfast 27: Mummy lets me have Daiquiris [...] I’ve had as many as four when she’s been a little bombed and hasn’t realized it.
1960		G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 109: The boys were so bombed that they were completely incapable of evil maneuver and said a simple, staggery good night.
1970		(con. 1950s) H. Junker ‘The Fifties’ in Eisen Age of Rock 2 (1970) 99: Getting [...] bombed out of your ever-loving mind.
1972		J. Wambaugh Blue Knight 241: The paddy was a well-dressed young guy, bombed out of his skull.
1975		D. Nobbs Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976) 95: We got bombed and the booze ran out.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 177: He looked about half-bombed.
1989		H. Harrison Bill [...] on the Planet of Robot Slaves (1991) 189: They were all well on the way to getting bombed out of their minds.
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 234: Bombed wasn’t the word for his condition.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 113: The elves were sloshed. The nymphs were bombed. The Mormons were blotto.
2011		J.J. DeCeglie Drawing Dead [ebook] He thought I was mondo drunk. Bourbon bombed.
2020		C. Hiaasen Squeeze Me 174: He was [...] bombed on Budweiser.

2. (orig. US) intoxicated by a drug.

1965		J.L. Herlihy Midnight Cowboy (1968) 149: Ratso was there, too. he said, ‘What’re you, bombed?’ Then to the MacAlbertsons he said, ‘He’s just bombed, that’s all.’.
1970		Times 18 Aug. 6: I’ve come into work bombed on sleepers a couple of times (they make you go round like you’re drunk).
1993		I. Welsh Trainspotting 7: Johnny was bombed ootay his box whin we finally made it up the stairs.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 149: Hinton squired a whore. She was dark. She was fat. She looked bombed.
2002		T. Dorsey Triggerfish Twist (2002) 87: ‘How do you feel?’ asked Bernie. Coleman looked slowly around the room. ‘[...] blotto, blitzed, blasted, blown, bombed, [...].’.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 82: Alison’s a bit bombed, mooth slack n eyelids heavy.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 7: [B]are-chested, bleary-eyed, maybe a small bit bombed.

3. driven mad.

1963

M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 31: Old slew-foot Nietzsche. Bombed out of his gourd by the nowhereness of it all.

4. (US campus) generally unwell.

1973

Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 1: bombed – feeling bad: I was bombed last week.