Green’s Dictionary of Slang

glorious adj.

very drunk.

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[Scot]Burns Tam o’Shanter in Works (1842) 98/2: Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious.
[UK]Navy at Home II 221: Saturday nights, when Toby invariably got glorious.
[UK]Comic Almanack Dec. 201: I [...] used to come home pretty glorious, I can tell you.
[UK]Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1905) 236: I knew nothing of the vow, or indeed of the tipsy frolic which was the occasion of it; I was taken up ‘glorious,’ as the phrase has it, by my servants, and put to bed.
[Aus]Bell’s Life in Sydney 22 Nov. 3/1: The whole posse comitatum [...] got glorious and pot-valiant.
Satirist & Punch (Boston, MA) 1 Feb. 57/2: They were drunk, most glorious.
[Aus]Bell’s Life in Sydney 23 Feb. 3/1: Ross gammoned to be that ‘glorious’ that [...] he should take a ’stretcher’.
[UK]Manchester Times 1 Oct. 6/5: Madame [...] got glorious and exhibited publicly drunk ansd rolled off her seat in the presence of her audience.
[Aus]Bell’s Life in Sydney 13 Nov. 3/2: I’ve not been drunk these six months, and never mean to get glorious any more.
[Ire]Eve. Freeman (Dublin) 16 Sept. n.p.: One drink followed another, and ‘John got glorious’.
[US]Alexandria Gaz. 18 Aug. 4/1: They drank [...] and it is estimated, they took more than twice ‘forty drops’. And now they got glorious.
[US]Progressive Farmer (Winston, NC) 16 June 8/1: There is an old veteran [...] who is always inventing exzcises for going on a spree . He got glorious on the 17th of March.
[Aus]H. Lawson ‘Meeting Old Mates’ in Roderick (1972) 168: You get as ‘glorious’ as Bobby Burns did in part of Tam O’Shanter.
[Aus]E. Dyson Fact’ry ’Ands 92: D’ yeh mean t’ tell me how Hoggy’s let you loose agin after you gettin’ glorious in his dry-goods.
[Aus]H. Lawson ‘The Ridiculous Family’ in Roderick (1972) 720: They got ‘glorious’ together, and Bob fought for the old man.
[US]Ward County Indep. (Minot, ND) 28 Sept. 12/2: A large number of men have been arrested for being drunk . Most of them got glorious jags on moonshine.