Green’s Dictionary of Slang

blind adv.1

[devoid of any external modification]

utterly, completely.

[US]Barton Co. Democrat 12 Apr. 6/4: You come home blind, blazing, staggering drunk, and smash everything.
[UK]Kipling ‘Gentlemen-Rankers’ in Barrack-Room Ballads (1893) 203: Yea, a trooper of the forces who has run his own six horses, / And faith he went the pace and went it blind.
[US]C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 178: That didn’t prove that he wasn’t plump, blind, staggering crazy.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 12 Nov. 14/2: Let ‘E.J.M.’ send his cobber [...] out to Western Queensland, and if I can’t mobilise at least 50 wool-hawks to shear him blind I will forfeit my tame grandmother.
[Aus]‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 2: They had to be dragged, some blind drunk, the rest blind stupid from their booze.
[US]D. Lamson We Who Are About to Die 196: If you do give [a sucker] an even break, he’ll steal you blind.
[US]N. Algren Man with the Golden Arm 115: The day I get my musician’s union card is the day I’ll steal Schwiefka blind.
[US]J. Thompson Savage Night (1991) 122: They [...] had said that I’d stolen his mother and father blind.
[US]H. Selby Jr Last Exit to Brooklyn 112: She yelled to Jack to comeon and she’d fuckim blind.
[US]G.V. Higgins Friends of Eddie Coyle 29: Goddam car was eating me blind.
[Aus](con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘The Bastard from the Bush’ in Snatches and Lays 82: Fuck me blind, he wants to join us.
[UK]F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 121: I happen to be fractionally more blind terrified of your father than I am of the unknown murderer.
[US]M. Baker Nam (1982) 148: They would steal you blind, but they always had a big ball of opium for you to smoke.
[US]J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 89: Blind high when he X’s on the dotted line.
[UK]A. Sillitoe Birthday 12: And you fucked her blind on the sofa.
[US]J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 200: All the employees were stealing them blind.

In compounds

blind drunk (adj.) [SE in 20C]

extremely drunk.

[UK]‘T.B. Junr.’ Pettyfogger Dramatized II iv: I’m always so blind drunk overnight.
[US]Vermont Republican (Windsor, VT) 21 Feb. 4/3: ‘’Fore Gad you’re right [...] I was blind drunk’.
[UK] ‘Of All The Blowings On The Town’ in Flash Chaunter 5: Her mother she’s a lushington, / And stone blind drunk all day man.
[UK]Comic Almanack Dec. 248: ’Tis said, you’ll scandalize your nation, / And get blind drunk a-going home!
[UK]Disraeli Sybil Bk IV 132: Hang me if I wasn’t blind drunk at the end of it.
[Ire] ‘Fair of Clogeen’ in Irish Songster 24: We danced like devils till morning, then went to bed blind drunk with whisky.
[UK]‘Sunday Trading Bill’ in C. Hindley Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 115: To the gin shop you can cut away / And get blind drunk upon that day.
[UK]M.E. Braddon Trail of the Serpent 249: You would think he had never been blind drunk in his life.
[US]‘Johnny Cross’ ‘And She Wore A Waterfall’ in Orig. Pontoon Songster 28: She got blind drunk on lager-beer.
[US]‘Dan de Quille’ Big Bonanza (1947) 279: They fiddled and danced till they all got blind drunk.
[US](con. c.1840) ‘Mark Twain’ Huckleberry Finn 51: I judged he would be blind drunk in about an hour.
[US]R.C. Hartranft Journal of Solomon Sidesplitter 159: The patient who was ‘blind (drunk),’ was deprived of his whiskey.
[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 5 Nov. 13/4: The constable swore without a smile that William was blind drunk.
[UK]Kipling ‘In Ambush’ Complete Stalky & Co. 47: Stalky & Co. had... fallen by drink... They had returned blind-drunk from a hut.
[Aus]E. Dyson Fact’ry ’Ands 119: We’ll all get blin’ drunk when Johnnie comes marchin’ ’ome again.
[Aus]‘Henry Handel Richardson’ Aus. Felix (1971) 2: They had to be dragged, some blind drunk, the rest blind stupid from their booze.
[Aus]N. Lindsay Redheap (1965) 51: ‘T’other’s a man,’ sez I, lyin’ along here like a blinded cripple’ ‘Blind drunk, you mean,’ said the youth on the bed.
[US](con. 1963) J. Carroll The Basketball Diaries 28: He was blind drunk, couldn’t even make it to the john by himself, and had to have one of us holding him while he pissed.

In phrases

go it blind (v.)

1. (US) to commit oneself unrestrainedly.

[US]Broadway Belle (NY) 12 Mar. n.p.: And truer still, I ‘went it blind’ / With that ’are other lady.
[US]A. Trumble Mott Street Poker Club 20: ‘Blettee on laces [...] me glo it blind’.

2. to drink heavily; usu. of alcohol.

[UK] ‘’Arry in ’Arrygate’ in Punch 24 Sept. 133/3: Watching the poor sulphur-swiggers, a-gargling and going it blind.
[UK]Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 475/2: [...] late C19–20.
rob blind (v.) (also steal blind)

to rob without restraint.

[US]Mitchell Dly Republican (SD) 19 Sept. 1/2: The unsophisticated visitors are being robbed blind.
Times (Phila., PA) 22 June 10/6: The hackmen steal and rob you blind, that is, if the bazaar people and side-shows leave enough for the Jehus.
Buffalo Morn. Exp. (NY) 2 Feb. 17/7: [headline] Says the Comptroller could not ‘steal the City blind’. Theft is not so easy.
[US]R.O. Case ‘A Ticket Outside’ in Goodstone Pulps (1970) 78/1: You’ve been robbing Joe blind from the start.
[US]P. Rabe Benny Muscles In (2004) 187: A run-down, no-good territory where Paddy used to rob you blind.
Dly Press (Newport News, PA) 28 Aug. 28/3: Never trust a car dealer. He’ll steal you blind.
[US]A. Hoffman Property Of (1978) 57: That damn Gina [...] is robbing me not quite blind.
[US]R. Campbell In La-La Land We Trust (1999) 189: I don’t want some gonifs coming in here robbing me blind while I show you my merchandise.
Rutland Dly Herald (VT) 27 July 41/4: We’re much more likely to speak of being ‘robbed blind’ by a con artist than by a gun-toting criminal.
[UK]Guardian G2 6 Aug. 8: They’re robbing you blind.
[UK]N. Barlay Hooky Gear 308: Keep them fetchin. Time their carryin. Rob them blind.
[US]F. Bill Donnybrook [ebook] ‘He wanted to rob you blind, he could’ve made off like a goat in miles of clover’.
[Aus]D. Whish-Wilson Shore Leave 22: Tremain was being robbed blind.
talk someone blind (v.) (also talk a glass eye to sleep)

(Aus./N.Z.) to overwhelm someone with talk, to bore someone.

[Aus]Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Nov. 11/4: She was feared she’d find – that he’d talk her blind.
[Aus]R. Beckett Dinkum Aussie Dict. 51: Talk you blind: The same pub bore who does [talk incessantly]. An ear basher.
[NZ]McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. 207: talk a glass eye to sleep Boring.