Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. milit.) drunk.

1902		Boston Globe Sun. Mag. 21 Dec. 7–8: ‘Incandescent’ refers to a mild form of hilarity; ‘plastered’ refers to drunk.
1912		Ade Knocking the Neighbors 139: He had been Snooted for Fair, Plastered, Ossified, Bennzoated, Piped, Pickled, Spifflicated, Corned, Raddled, Obfuscated, Soused and Orr-Eyed.
1928		J.P. McEvoy Showgirl 23: Hoofing for a lot of plastered goofs in that bum night club.
1932		Eve. Post (NZ) 3 Mar. 16/1: [pic. caption] Bert Wheeler [...] and Dorothy Lee in ‘Caught Plastered’, a comedy to be screened at the Majestic Theatre.
1935		W. Smith Bessie Cotter 117: You’ll get plastered if you don’t look out.
1948		(con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 553: The glamour of getting plastered on beers in the local tavern.
1953		R. Chandler Long Good-Bye 5: The first time I laid eyes on Terry Lennox he was drunk [...] You could tell by his eyes that he was plastered to the hairline.
1954		Mad mag. Aug. 24: The shomponya is beginning to go to your head? [...] In other words you are plastered?
1960		C. Cooper Jr Syndicate (1998) 76: I was almost plastered when Eversen called.
1963		C. Rohan Down by the Dockside 212: He arrived plastered to the eyeballs, full as a State school.
1966		(con. 1954) J. McGrath Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun II i: Them two get paralytic plastered in the rotten bloody Nafi, miss their tour and run beserk.
1976		Cab Calloway Of Minnie the Moocher and Me 10: Nice ladies who didn’t like the idea of their husbands [...] coming home plastered.
1981		J. Sullivan ‘Go West Young Man’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] I’m fixing to get plastered. But the beer is crook.
1992		K. Lette Llama Parlour 97: Probably she ease plastered.
1996		J. Byrell Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 73: ‘Might as well get half-plastered anyway. Let’s have a schooner willyer mate!’.
2006		D. Mitchell Black Swan Green 100: Does your old man ever get pissed [...] so fucking plastered he . . . he can hardly speak?
2009		Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, MA) 1 Nov. 29/1: You can’t hold a good Scotsman back when he wants to get [...] buckled, fou, guttered, [...] mortal, pie-eyed [...] plastered [...] steaming, stocious or wrecked.
2013		T. Robinson Hard Bounce [ebook] The girl was plastered. Her eyes looked like a street map of St. Louis.

2. (US Mex. teen) beaten up.

1993

L. Rodríguez Always Running (1996) 110: I was already quite plastered but somehow still standing.