stunned adj.
1. (Aus./N.Z.) drunk.
Kilmore Free Press (Vic.) 28 July 2/4: A drunk [...] said he had only two drinks that day, but that he was stunned. | ||
Salt Lake City (UT) 30 Mar. 4/5: He is [...] tangled, stunned. | ||
Digger Dialects 48: stunned (adj.) — Drunk. | ||
(con. WWI) Gloss. Sl. [...] in the A.I.F. 1921–1924 (rev. t/s) n.p.: stunned. Drunk. | ||
Sl. Today and Yesterday 288: He deserves his liberty to-night, and even if he gets stunned he deserves it. | in Partridge||
AS XVIII:2 Apr. 89: A thoroughly drunk man is stonkered, floored, stunned. | ‘Eng. as it is Spoken in N.Z.’ in||
Dimboola (2000) 98: Just look at him! Just look at him. Looks like a stunned mullet [...] It’s an alcoholic stupor! | ||
Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 109/2: stunned drunk. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
2. (US gay) intoxicated by a drug.
Queens’ Vernacular 191: stunned (camp) stoned. |