Green’s Dictionary of Slang

liquored (up) adj.

drunk.

1593		M. Drayton Nymphal III in Chalmers IV (1810) 451/1: When as two youths, that soundly liquor’d were, Dorilus and Doron [...] Thus they the revels frolicly begun.
1647		J. Cleveland Poem in Character of a London-Diurnall 15: Our dinner was so good, My liquorish Muse cannot but chew the cood.
1711		N. Ward Vulgus Britannicus I 9: Some liquor’d with Foggy Ale, / Others with Glorious Mild and Stale.
1728		J. Dalton Narrative of Street-Robberies 44: Being very much in Liquor [...] laid himself down upon the Bench.
1765		Foote The Commissary 8: What, the old liquorish dowager from Devonshire Square?
1812		‘Hector Bull-us’ Diverting Hist. of John Bull and Brother Jonathan 65: She called him prating gabbler, liquorish glutton [...] and various other names.
1831		Mr Mathews’ Comic Annual 25: Vy, any von here, voud suppose you in licker!
1870		E. Hinton ‘Apothegms’ etc. Plutarch’s Morals I 268: I’ll die well liquored, and with my dinner in my belly [F&H].
1885		Salt lake Herald (UT) 14 June 6/3: Men and women, with the week’s earnings in their pockets [...] before they are thoroughly liquored up will invest two or three shillings.
1890		Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 6: The lantern signalled to her that he was drunk: but towards the end of his life she was afraid to remain at home when he was ‘in liquor,’ as she phrased it.
1898		Hawaiian Star (Honolulu) 9 Dec. 2/3: A number of sailors of the transport got liquored up and made life on the ship hideous.
1901		Spout Spring Times (KY) 14 Mar. 2/2: Berry Crowder [...] liquored up and conceived and executed the idea of taking home a coffin for his wife.
1917		O.O. McIntyre New York Day by Day 18 Aug. [synd. col.] He’s liquored up like an Eighth avenue husband on pay day.
1923		W. Holtby Anderby Wold (1981) 199: Irishmen can stand a lot o’ drink, not but what Mike isn’t a good ’un with his fists once he gets well liquored up.
1931		Ade Old-Time Saloon 27: [They] assembled to get themselves liquored ‘to the key-hole’ and then pull off rough-and-tumble fights.
1932		‘R. Scully’ Scarlet Pansy 271: Mason, liquored up a bit, called down – ‘Oh, we’re willing to go to bed, come along!’.
1942		R. Chandler High Window 192: All my employees are required to get liquored up from time to time.
1948		N. Mailer Naked and Dead 208: If they’s one goddam thing Ah gotta do when Ah get likkered up it’s to start roamin’ around.
1949		R. Chandler Little Sister 179: Clausen was liquored to a point where you wouldn’t want to trust him any more.
1952		J. Jones From Here to Eternity (1998) 254: He was properly liquored up.
1954		C. Chessman Cell 2455 3: One night he got himself likkered up.
1967		K. Kolb Getting Straight 42: Harry’s task was to keep them liquored up whenever possible.
1976		P. Conroy Great Santini (1977) 436: You were liquored up pretty bad.
1984		I. Doig Eng. Creek 75: I had seen my share of swacked-up people, yet Stanley didn’t really look liquored.
1997		H.R.F. Keating Soft Detective 259: So it was you, liquored up to give yourself confidence, who went into the house.
2001		Square Jane ‘Daily Musings’ Bee Square Jane 🌐 yours truely got rite likkered (thanks jason and kyla!) and grabbed fireball. i just wanted my hat back! i think he thought i was gonna haul him off the stage and keep him in a trunk at home or somut, cos he took off really fast.