Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (drugs, also coked off, coked out, cooked up) under the influence of a narcotic, usu. cocaine; thus coked-upness, the state of having taken (excessive) cocaine.

1918		H. Simon ‘Prison Dict.’ in AS VIII:3 (1933) 25/2: COKED UP. Intoxicated with cocaine.
1919		Transcript Foster Inq. in L.R. Murphy Perverts by Official Order (1989) 52: He had heard that those who attended ‘were all coked up and liquored up’.
1924		G. Henderson Keys to Crookdom 307: The snow bird is the criminal among the hopheads. When ‘coked up’ he will murder and rob and steal.
1929		D. Hammett Dain Curse 174: [of morphine] ‘Might be tough on her,’ I said irritably, ‘but it’s necessary enough. Anyway, she’s coked-up and better able to stand the shock than she will be later, when the stuff's dying out in her’ [ibid.] 199: I tried to figure out her calmness. I had seen her coked to the ears before, but this wasn’t that.
1930		E.H. Lavine Third Degree (1931) 227: Many of the newer generation of ‘coked’ or ‘hopped up’ gunmen will shoot and kill a merchant because they don’t like the look of his face.
1943		W.R. Burnett Nobody Lives for Ever 61: ‘The nerve of that coked-up ex-croaker,’ said Johnny.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 58: cooked [sic] up Being under the influence of cocaine.
1954		B. Appel Sweet Money Girl 80: He was coked up, this Leo Edwards, but once in his life he’d been smart.
1969		R.R. Lingeman Drugs from A to Z (1970).
1975		E. Torres Carlito’s Way 92: Nacho was in a joint, coked to the gills.
1985		N. George ‘Rappin’ with Russell’ in Buppies, B-Boys, Baps and Bohos (1994) 52: A room full of coked-up stickup kids.
1986		C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 230: Criminals ranging from drunken bar brawlers to [...] coked out psychotic killers.
1994		T. Willocks Green River Rising 218: Coked and ripped to Jesus.
2000		W.T. Vollmann Royal Family 312: In came the owner, coked up, or cracked up or methed up, manic and red-eyed.
2004		L. Redhead Peepshow [ebook] Frank coked up and arrogant [...] Jim handing out drugs like candy.
2004		P. Howard PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 149: The dude was coked off his tits.
2009		R. Milward Ten Storey Love Song 94: ‘I hope I not too coked-up’.
2010		Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 359: I [...] was so repulsed by their coked-out bullshit that I had to leave.
2012		T. Robinson ‘Last Call’ in Dirty Words [ebook] [C]oked off his nut.
2014		Eve. Standard (London) 18 Sept. 45/5: You’ll discover that drooling, coked-up kids are obnoxious.
2018		I. Welsh Dead Man’s Trousers 79: Carl displays classic coked-upness, eating very little and ranting.
2019		N. Walker Cherry 184: I got coked up [...] and called Emily.
2020		C. Hiaasen Squeeze Me 157: Photographers clambered around like coked-up marmosets.
2021		Breen & Conlon Hitmen 1: A young, coked-up hitman desperate to impress.
2023		Twitter/X 11 Nov. 🌐 Make no mistake: these guys are coked up lunks spoiling for a fight.

2. (US) drunk.

1944

J.T. Farrell ‘Street Scene’ in To Whom It May Concern 68: You can see, he’s coked up with wood alcohol.