Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. drunk.

1930		R. McAlmon ‘Blithe Insecurities’ in Knoll McAlmon and the Lost Generation (1976) 85: I’m going back and get pop-eyed drunk.
1938		X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) 56: [He was] struggling [...] to keep his hands from choking the life out of a Lousy, Bloody, Pop-eyed Pommy.

2. regrettable, bad [fig. use of sense 1].

1954

(con. 1920s–30s) J.O. Killens Youngblood (1956) 303: You all aren’t telling nothing but a pop-eyed lie.