Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also lush) drunk.

1826		‘Bobby and His Mary’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 95: While she, poor stupid woman, / Got lushed that night.
1833		‘Beak and Trap to Roost are Gone’ in Swell!!! or, Slap-Up Chaunter 48: Lush’d heavy coves with queerish stamps.
1874		Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: They were both lushed (drunk) before they began.
1890		Nat. Police Gaz. (NY) 31 May 2/3: Jimmy he was lush, and Maggie was studying snakes, but I hadn’t been tampering with the booze for more than a month.
1892		E.J. Milliken ’Arry Ballads 17: A workman well lushed shies his ’at for the Queen.
1928		M. Prenner ‘Sl. Synonyms for “Drunk”’ in AS IV:2 102: basted [...] lushed.
1938		‘Sl. among Nebraska Negroes’ in AS XIII:4 Dec. 317/1: Among adjectives [...] High, ready, sent, right, lushed refer to various stages of intoxication.
1956		H. Gold Man Who Was Not With It (1965) 164: I won’t kill you, Stan, because you’re lushed.
1961		(con. 1920s) J. Sparks Burglar to the Nobility 20: We took him to an afternoon drinking club in Shepherd Market and got him lushed.
1969		N. Cohn Awopbop. (1970) 36: He played a bit, sang a bit and everyone got lushed.
1973		L. Bangs in Psychotic Reactions (1988) 123: She’s so lushed she trips over her own feet.

2. (US) in weak use of sense 1, emotionally moved.

1938

Newark Advocate (OH) 2 Sept. 12/5: Even the longhaired squares were lushed to the sills on the swingaroo, peeling the apple straight on down the groove.