locked adj.
(Irish) drunk.
Down All the Days 4: Their father had been drinking since he was twelve, when a pint of stout cost only a penny [...] so that he often got ‘locked’ on a shilling. | ||
Commitments 12: I was fuckin’ locked, said Declan Cuffe. – Rum an’ blacks, yeh know. | ||
(con. 1920s) Dublin Tenement Life 63: He’d come in locked drunk. | ||
The Joy (2015) [ebook] I’m still not sure if you’d get locked on it [i.e. altar wine]. | ||
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 2: 22:58:04 Residents’ Bor, Berkeley Court, Basically Locked Now. |