Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. drunk or intoxicated by a drug.

1927		Judge (NY) 92 29: Snake-eyes — Two ‘ones’ in crap. Snifter — See Snort. Snockered — Intoxicated. Snooty — Anything unusually striking.
1935		Escanaba Dly Press(MI) 19 Nov. 19/4Do not drink too much, it make you snockered: .
1942		F. Davis Quicksilver 377: The original six wouldn't be able to get snockered.
1955		W. White ‘Wayne University Sl.’ AS XXX:4 303: ploughed; schnockered; way up, adj. Drunk.
1960		G. Swarthout Where the Boys Are 196: They had gone cruising in his car all day and drinking beer in various locales and got quite snockered.
1967		E. Shepard Doom Pussy 33: When the bars close they belch forth battalions of snockered GIs.
1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS 200: Snockered Drunk. Snockered out Drunk and passed out.
1968		Fairbanks Dly News-Miner (AK) 7 Nov. 2/1: Party bosses would get bar room habituees snockered up and then cart them off to the polling places.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 179: shnockered feeling the full effect of a narcotic.
1974		Chicago Trib. 27 Apr. sect. 1 10/1: Your driving privileges were suspended [which] stemmed from you driving while snockered-up.
1974		C. Loken Come Monday Morning 34: You know, after Las’ Friday when you come in here an’ got all snockered outta shape.
1982		R.M. Brown Southern Discomfort (1983) 43: Isn’t it my inalienable right as an American citizen to get snookered?
1985		Eble Campus Sl. Oct. 9: schnookered – drunk, but with class.
1986		C. Hiaasen Tourist Season (1987) 2: Bellamy was so snockered he didn’t even blink at the ten-dollar cover.
1994		M. Ribowsky Don’t Look Back 76: They would come to hear Duke Ellington [...] get snockered, and forget all about what sunrise meant.
1995		Eble Campus Sl. Dec. 6: snookered – drunk.
1997–2001		Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 shnockered adj 1. extremely inebriated. (‘I’m going to get so shnockered at the party!’).
2000		W.T. Vollmann Royal Family 564: You sit there and get snookered.
2005		J. Stahl I, Fatty 232: I got snockered with the wrong bunch of degenerates.
2016		Dly News-Jrnl (Murfreesboro, TN) 82/3He came home pretty snockered: .

2. (US) assessed, worked out.

1972

D. Pendleton Boston Blitz (1974) 61: I’ve been following his campaign like a fan. I think maybe I’ve got him snockered now. I think I know what his pattern will be in this area.