Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) drunk, tipsy.

1900

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1998

1900		W.F. Drannan Thirty-One Years on the Plains and Mountains (1903) 121: The third day we arrived at the place spoken of, this man Shewman got pretty well ginned up.
1919		C.S. Montanye ‘Hoodwink’ in Detective Story 30 Apr. 🌐 Spug was ginned — soused to the ears!
1924		P. Marks Plastic Age 213: One girl clung to him as they danced and whispered, ‘Hold me up, kid; I’m ginned’.
1928		Sat. Eve. Post 4 Feb. 105/2: The man who wrote that was all ginned up [DA].
1938		D. Runyon ‘Madame La Gimp’ in Runyon on Broadway (1954) 239: She is [...] generally somewhat ginned up.
1950		N. Lindsay Dust or Polish? 35: ‘You go slow on the gin, auntie,’ said Dr Grimsby. ‘If you hadn’t been ginned up you wouldn’t have fallen down those stairs’.
1959		A. Burgess Beds in the East (1972) 611: ‘Still, we’d better go. Get ginned up a bit before the fun starts’.
1962		Ragen & Finston World’s Toughest Prison 801: ginned – Intoxicated.
1998		A. Leyshon et al. Place of Music 234: They [...] get all ginned up on beer and raise hell all night long.