Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. Aus.) completely.

1897		Sun. Times (Sydney) 28 Nov. 1/1: [S]ome of the firemen ‘got blind paralytic drunk’ [...] at the Melbourne fire.
1908		Bulletin (Sydney) 3 Sept. 39/2: Yes, we’re stone, paralytic broke. How will this cabby perform?
1947		G. Kersh Prelude to a Certain Midnight Bk I Ch. 13: Some old hag, paralytic-drunk on Red Biddy.
1961		T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 133: ‘You always said that you’d like to see me paralytic drunk’.
1967		N. Dunn Poor Cow 127: I went over Col’s and had a couple of glasses of dandelion wine and I was paralytic pissed.
1973		B.S. Johnson All Bull 85: I found the two guards paralytic drunk.