Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to take drugs; thus drugging n., drug-taking.

1893		Funk’s Standard Dict. n.p.: She has drugged all her life [OED].
1968		H.R.F. Keating Inspector Ghote Hunts Peacock 98: Your precious Peacock was nothing but a low-down little drugger. I may smoke because I need it for my work, but she just drugged to make herself lower than she was [OED].
1978		L. Kramer Faggots 335: All we do is live in our Ghetto and dance and drug and fuck.
1996		Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 3: drug – stay continually under the influence of drugs.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 9: Evrybody seems tuh be givin thuh drinkin an druggin a rest at the mo.
2013		W.D. Myers Darius & Twig 6: My dad was living somewhere on the Lower East Side, drugging himself to death.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 154: ‘Turn up on April twenty-first for your hearing, sonny Jim. And no drugging while you’re waiting’.
2022		A. Parks May God Forgive 73: ‘He been drinking and drugging again?’.

2. (US campus) to beat decisively.

1999

Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 4: drug – defeat or beat someone badly in some type of competition: ‘We drugged that team by fifty points in the basketball game.’.