bombed out adj.1
1. overcome by an excess of alcohol or drugs.
Drugs from A to Z (1970). | ||
Glitter Dome (1982) 18: Wing [...] hopped down the bar toward a bombed-out kiddy cop from Hollenbeck. | ||
Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 151: From the hardest-nosed thugs to the most bombed-out junkies. | ||
The Joy (2015) [ebook] [E]ither we were bombed out of it or it was just after we’d done over some poor cunt to get money to buy smack. | ||
Happy Like Murderers 153: Fred was cool about drugs and drunkenness and crazy bombed-out behaviour. | ||
At End of Day (2001) 67: Real bombed-out craziness. |
2. exhausted.
Norman’s London (1969) 83: We went back to Paris dead bombed out. | in Lilliput June in||
Bloods (1985) 9: You had worked so hard during the day [...] you were just bombed out. | ||
Doing Time 187: bombed out: broken down, very tired. |
3. in fig. use.
letter 29 June in Charters II (1999) 365: All that bombed-out literature we started (bombed-out-of-mind). |