Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. very drunk.

1968		Current Sl. III:1 15: Wrecked, adj. Intoxicated.
1977		J. Sayles Union Dues (1978) 208: The kid was getting pretty wrecked. His cheeks were flushed all pink.
1986		C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 133: Got a little wrecked with Wolfie last night.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 36: I see a completely wrecked auld cunt in faded but clean clothes noising up some students.
2004		Guardian G2 5 Oct. 5: The British have that many, and more, to describe getting drunk. Plastered, wrecked [...] and areseholed are but a few.
2005		A. Biswell Anthony Burgess 172: The four of them got wrecked on a gallon of toddy, an illegally distilled spirit.
2009		Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA) 1 Nov. 29/1: You can’t hold a good Scotsman back when he wants to get [...] buckled, fou, guttered, [...] mortal, pie-eyed [...] plastered [...] steaming, stocious or wrecked.

2. (drugs) heavily affected by a drug.

1971		Current Sl. V:4 22: Wrecked, adj. High on drugs.
1976		R. Sabbag Snowblind (1978) 84: They had grass and mescaline and invited Swan back to their hotel to get wrecked.
1985		T. Wolff ‘Our Story Begins’ in Back in the World 162: The three waiters kept going back to the storeroom to smoke dope. By the time the restaurant closed they were so wrecked they could hardly stand.
1998		G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 318: People were wrecked. Their mother used to smoke dope sometimes when she was younger.
2003		N. Griffiths Stump 55: — Be wrecked now, that fly. All that charlie that’s in yer bloodstream.
2013		Guardian On Line 24 Aug. 🌐 I was getting wrecked seven times a day.
2020		C. Hiaasen Squeeze Me 146: [W]recked on meth.

3. heavily addicted to a drug/drugs.

1983

New Society 11 Aug. 204/3: This is his sixth time in the City Roads centre [...] ‘Anytime I get wrecked I come here’ [...] When he came in ten days ago he was doing heroin, methadone and Ritalin.

4. (US campus) very upset.

1982

Eble Campus Sl. Fall 5: wrecked – upset, in disbelief: I saw my boyfriend with a new person. I’m wrecked.

5. exhausted.

1996		P. Howard The Joy (2015) [ebook] The lads look wrecked, just like they’ve finished a marathon.
2001		G. Coughlan Everyday Eng. and Sl. 🌐 Wrecked (adj): tired.
2005		P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 7: I’m wrecked. I’m going to hit the old Margaret Thatcher.
2021		Breen & Conlon Hitmen 224: Didn’t get much sleep last night [...] Bleedin’ wrecked I am’.