Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. drunk, under the influence of drugs.

1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 113: Faded Drunk and passed out.
1997–2000		Da Bomb 🌐 10: Faded; I. Feeling the effects of alcohol or drugs; drunk, intoxicated.
2000		W. Shaw Westsiders 59: Silas got drunk [...] Rah was ready to punch him out. ‘He was faded,’ he explains. ‘He was disrespecting.’.
2012		J. Díaz This Is How You Lose Her 168: You got to the bars [...] get seriously faded.
2014		N. Kolicki ‘Poachers’ in ThugLit Nov.-Dec. [ebook] .I'm talking mega-high. Over-baked. Ultra-faded.
2017		hubpages.com ‘Roadman Slang 4 Jun. 🌐 Lean/faded/baked - high on marijuana.
2020		G. Krauze What They Was 13: We can buy a draw or two [...] or maybe a q [and] get properly faded.

2. unfashionable.

1994

G. Smitherman Black Talk.

3. used to excess.

1994

G. Smitherman Black Talk.