Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. mildly drunk, tipsy.

1801		C. Dibdin Yngr Song Smith 84: Thus Britons doat on being muzz’d, / And whether fresh or foggy, / By bosky Frenchmen won’t be buzz’d, Who thought to catch us groggy.
1950		R. Starnes And When She Was Bad She Was Murdered 41: Deane, comfortably buzzed by his cocktails, monopolized what conversation there was.
1956		J. Osborne Look Back in Anger Act II: How I remember looking down on them, full of beer for breakfast, and feeling a bit buzzed.
1971		B. Short Black and White Baby 92: I beat out ‘Nobody’s Sweetheart Now’ to the buzzed customers at the Edgewater.
1978		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 1: buzzed [...] I got buzzed on those two beers we had.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U. 52: I was buzzed after my first three beers and everything that happened made me want to laugh.
1993		J. Mowry Six Out Seven (1994) 174: Little buzzed from the J.D. is all.
2003		P. Cornwell Blow Fly (2004) 4: Here we are, slightly buzzed from a few drinks.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 147: N we head up tae Tommy Younger’s en route tae Edinburgh, aw buzzed up.
2018		Sth Florida Sun Sentinel (Fort lauderdale, FL) 26 Jan. A8/1: ‘I’ve done shows a little buzzed’.
2023		J. Jackson Pineapple Street 204: [W]hen they drank Georgina slipped quickly from buzzed to blackout.

2. (also buzzed out) mildly intoxicated by a drug.

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 39: buzzed [...] 2. artificially energetic through amphetamines or caffein, etc.
1979		H. Feldman et al. Angel Dust 88: Users [...] jargon identifying four levels of PCP intoxication: ‘buzzed,’ ‘fucked-up’ or ‘wasted,’ ‘ozoned,’ and ‘overdosed’.
1984		Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 14 July Today (with the help of Sandy) we met five 24 year olds. They gave us some marijuana. We were buzzed.
1991		L. Bing Do or Die (1992) 52: When you out there and if you buzzed, then you feel like you cannot die.
2000		Eminem ‘Bitch please II’ 🎵 Damn baby girl what’s your name? / I forgot – what’d you say it was? Damn a nigga buzzed.
2006		C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 272: Cindy was a buzzed-out tramp who would have cheated on Prince William.
2009		L. McIlvanney All the Colours 49: He’s on something, I might have thought; the guy’s buzzed.

3. excited.

1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular.
1983		R. Price Breaks 54: When we got back to the phones I was totally buzzed.
1997		G. Sikes 8 Ball Chicks (1998) 26: I wasn’t wasted. I was like buzzed, blowing in the wind in the back of the truck, like ‘Hey, I’m cool’.
2001		N. Barlay Hooky Gear 186: Hes so buzzed he even point out the bit of the Grand Union canal where they threw Jack the Hat McVities car keys after they done him. Like suddenly he was really up there with the Twins.
2013		J. Stahl Happy Mutant Baby Pills 93: A hundred or two buzzed silhouettes bumped and hopped around a drum circle.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 22: [A] dance-punk outfit that the bloggers were buzzed about.