Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. very drunk.

1966		Current Sl. I:2 6/1: Trashed, adj. Intoxicated.
1977		Eble Campus Sl. Fall 5: trashed – very drunk.
1989		J. Doyle College Sl. Dict. 🌐 trashed [CMU] overworked, tired, drunk. More often the former.
1994		G. Indiana Rent Boy 49: A whole car full of Jersey teens speeding home from their senior prom, trashed out of their minds.
2004		C. Hiaasen Skinny Dip 333: Probably got trashed and drove hisself into the canal.
2010		A. Steinberg Running the Books 185: Jessica had started drinking again [...] she got trashed on Jamesons.
2019		S.M. Jones Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘So this guy’s trashed [...] Wasyed’.

2. very intoxicated by a drug.

1989		P. Munro Sl. U.
1999		T. Dorsey Florida Roadkill 34: Man, I’m trashed, he thought.
2008		T. Dorsey Atomic Lobster 42: What you do is called getting outrageously trashed, falling down flights of stairs, bringing home drifters [etc.].
2020		C. Hiaasen Squeeze Me 47: You still think she got trashed and fell in the pond.

3. extremely ill or emotionally disturbed.

1987

‘Joe Bob Briggs’ Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In 192: Cherry Dilday [...] lost her lunch in the first half-hour, tossed her cookies all over the upholstery, ended up so trashed she forgot to take her clothes off.

4. exhausted, tired, overworked.

1980		Eble Campus Sl. Spring 6: trashed – tired.
1993		T. Winton Lockie Leonard: Scumbuster (1995) 159: Lockie sat down, totally trashed.

5. of an object, wrecked, ruined, destroyed.

1985		Eble Campus Sl. Oct. 10: Carol’s apartment was trashed after the party.
1997		E. Little Another Day in Paradise 226: Baby Al’s got a trashed four-door Ford he uses for crimin’.
2001		(con. 1964–8) J. Ellroy Cold Six Thousand 170: Pete’s car was trashed/totaled/torched. No windshield. No hubcaps. No tires. No wheels.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 335: Ah go intae the bar, which is totally trashed.
2012		L. Berney Whiplash River [ebook] His restaurant was trashed and he couldn’t afford to shut down.
2023		A. Parks To Die in June 1412: ‘[T]wo of his pubs got trashed’.