zapped adj.
1. (also zapped up) killed, destroyed; exhausted; overwhelmed.
![]() | Cat Man 283: ‘Wait’ll we get to Salt Lake, huh, Fid? Two to one in that town. The prettiest chicks beg you there [...]’ [...] Red slapped his shoulder, too zapped up to get mad. | |
![]() | (ref. to 1952) AS XXXVII:1 71: ‘Zapped.’.. I first heard it in 1952 while I was an undergraduate at Brown University. The term was in vogue [...] to designate precisely the process by which a student [...] had his ‘come-uppance’ in class or on an examination. | |
![]() | Letter in Dear America (1985) 29 Jan. 256: It is only reasonable to fear being zapped over here, it is unreasonable to be more afraid of being zapped in the last few weeks of one’s tour. | |
![]() | (con. 1969) Dispatches 26: He goes up there himself and damned if the fucker didnt get zapped. | |
![]() | Homeboy 320: They [...] waked him on the porch where Rings had watched him zapped. | |
![]() | Da Bomb 🌐 32: Zapped: Tired, no energy. |
2. intoxicated by drink and/or drugs.
![]() | Dict. Contemp. and Colloq. Usage. | |
![]() | Yes We have No 249: The whole zapped multitude is back on its feet. | |
![]() | Sun. Times Rev. 12 Mar. 3: The only time he was ever ‘biffed’ inside was when he approached an inmate zapped on heroin. |