Green’s Dictionary of Slang

cross-eyed adj.

drunk.

1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 61: Pretty Sammy’s out, the fourflushin’, cross-eyed slob.
c.1940–5		‘Myles na gCopaleen’ Best of Myles (1968) 338: Drunk; jarred; [...] cock-eyed; cross-eyed; crooked.
2000		(con. 1940s–60s) Décharné Straight from the Fridge Dad.