Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also soaked up, soakful) drunk.

1599		H. Porter Two Angry Women of Abington D2: I am sure hee hath more liquor in him Then a whole dicker of hydes; hees sockt throughly Ifaith.
1852		C.L. Canfield Diary of a Forty-Niner (1906) 143: He bought his rum by the gallon and kept soaked all the time. Tuesday night he had a bad attack of the jim-jams.
a.1856		Burlington Sentinel in Hall (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] soaked.
1860		Spirit of Democracy (Woodsfield, OH) 25 July 4/1: Synonyms [for drunk] [...] drenched, soaked, mellow, having steam up, oblivious, addled.
1875		Essex Newsman 8 May 3/6: A couple of fellows who were pretty thoroughly soaked with bad whiskey.
1884		Pall Mall Gazette 1 Aug. 4/1: He was [...] so drunk he could not stand. His friend [...] was also pretty well soaked .
1897		A.H. Lewis Wolfville 313: She s’prises an’ dismays the Major a lot, even drunk an’ soaked with nose paint as he shorely is.
1899–1900		C.L. Cullen Tales of the Ex-Tanks 35: You’ve been steadily and properly soakful for three months or so.
1910		East Oregonian (Pendleton, OR) 13 Dec. 5/5: A woman’s ‘good cry’ makes a whole lot better safety valve than a man’s soakful souse!
1911		Dly Deadwood Pioneer-Times (SD) 12 July 6/2: Monday night he got soaked in booze.
1916		Wichita Dly Eagle (KS) 10 Aug. 3/2: A pretty decent sort of fellow [...] and no worse than any of us when we get soaked up on fire water.
1929		J.B. Priestley Good Companions 539: Every time I used to meet old Billy Crutch when he was soaked, I used to tell him that one.
1930		E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 43: Flirt: What is a ‘speakeasy’? Flapper: It’s place where you can get a binge on your way up town, — and get soaked at any time of the evening.
1934		O. Strange Sudden 120: ’Stead o’ that yu gotta get soaked.
1945		N. Marsh Died in the Wool (1963) 205: Albie‘s dead to the world. Soaked.
1958		A. Sillitoe Sat. Night and Sun. Morning 170: Arthur, by now well-soaked, started the whole room singing.
1961		R.A. Norton Through Beatnik Eyeballs 14: If barmen wasn’t so keen on the green stuff they’d belt peoples away before they got really soaked.
1977		(con. 1960s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 82: She says to him, right half soaked, ‘Has tha come into some money?’.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U.

2. (US) intoxicated by a drug.

1917		F. Packard Adventures of Jimmie Dale (1918) II xi: ‘Just gimme de price of one, Slimmy—just one.’ ‘Coke!’ exploded the Magpie. ‘An’ get soaked to de eyes—not by a damn sight!’.
1936		N. Marsh Death in Ecstasy 251: Pringle’s soaked to the back teeth in drugs.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U.