Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US) drunk, tipsy.

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.
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.