Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. very drunk.

1967–8		Baker et al. CUSS.
1979		(con. c.1970) G. Hasford Short Timers (1985) 51: Am I drunk? I mean, am I hammered or am I hammered?
1988		D. Woodrell Muscle for the Wing 42: I still feel hammered.
1998		I. Welsh Filth 267: Lennox and I decide to go out and get hammered.
2005		P. Howard Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightdress 3: Residents’ Bor, Berkeley Court, Seriously hammered.
2007		L. Redhead Cherry Pie [ebook] Everyone was hammered.
2007		R. Milward Apples (2023) 3: The empty stomach would at least get me dead hammered.
2016		T. Robinson Rough Trade [ebook] We were hammered. It [i.e. spontaneous sex] was an acceptance of drunken release.
2016		Independent 5 Jan. 🌐 Many competing coinages express the same notion. This can be seen in the [...] multiple synonyms for drunk or drugged (used by older students as well as school kids) such as carnaged, wazzed, hammered, hamstered.
2021		P Howard Braywatch 35: He’s absolutely hammered.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 221: Leo Thor spends all day drinking [...] hammered by noon.
2024		D. Swierczynski California Bear 23: ‘Let’s go get hammered,’ Hightower said. At this point [...] Jack was pretty sure Hightower was as baked as a potato.

2. (US drugs) extremely intoxicated by a drug.

1986		Totally True Diaries of an Eighties Roller Queen 🌐 25 Jan. I hung around Dave H. all night. He was really really really hammered.
1990		(con. c.1970) G. Hasford Phantom Blooper 23: The Civil War soldiers all got hammered out of their minds together and then the war was over and everybody got laid.
2000		Observer 4 June 35: A hammered girl, however lets the boy stick a coin on her forehead.
2006		C. Hiaasen Nature Girl 173: Fry [...] was still hammered from the pain medication.
2012		(con. 1980s) I. Welsh Skagboys 167: Ah got skag-hammered wi Matty, Spud n Keezbo.
2013		T. Dorsey Riptide Ultra-Glide 68: ‘You’re really getting seriously fucked up, completely hammered, ripped to the nuts, shit-faced and puking’.
2016		see sense 1.

3. (US campus) of a car, loaded up with accessories.

1997

Da Bomb Summer Supplement 7: Hammered [...] 2. (adj.) A car that is lowered and fixed with accessories.