Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US) drunk; ext. as teed up to the tits.

1887		Lantern (N.O.) 19 Mar. 3: Bunker Fitz an’ his pals buys ten cents er booze [...] and gets tead up.
1896		W.C. Gore Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 4: teed up a. Drunk.
1905		F. Hutchison Philosophy of Johnny the Gent 51: ‘Well, I’m about half tea’d up, or I never would ’a stood fer it’.
1924		P. Marks Plastic Age 275: Out of that thousand not more than fifty were really soused at the Prom, and not more than a hundred and seventy-five were even a little teed.
1928		L.E. Lawes Life And Death In Sing Sing 53: ‘Didn’t alcohol have something to do with your coming here?’ ‘Yes, sah, dey was bofe considerable teaed up.’.
1939		Howsley Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. 51: teed – drunk.
c.1943		Sammy Price Teed Up [piano solo title].
1952		J. Jones From Here to Eternity (1998) 351: After we get teed up? [...] After we’re properly soused.
1961		‘Lou Rand’ Gay Detective (2003) 85: Get her, she’s tee’d to the ears.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 195: teed [to the tits] [very] drunk.
1986		Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 8: totaled out – under the influence of either alcohol or drugs. Also t-oed, teed out.
1996		Eble Sl. and Sociability 83: Ripped and teed up mean ‘drunk.’.

2. (US drugs) intoxicated by marijuana.

1944		D. Burley Orig. Hbk of Harlem Jive 50: Every cat and chippie is ‘teed’ up high, and calling for chocolate and peppermint candy.
1947		D. Burley N.Y. Amsterdam News 27 Sept. 21: The Teed Keed was putting down a little light broad-loom wit the Gay Fay from Mandalay.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 220/2: Tea’d (or teed) up. 1. Under the influence of marijuana.
1958		C. Himes Real Cool Killers (1969) 125: Don’t cross him [...] He’s teaed to the eyes.
1986		Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 8: totaled out – under the influence of either alcohol or drugs. Also t-oed, teed out.

3. in a state of tense excitement due to circumstances [fig. use of sense 2].

1947		D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 314: At this stage of the battle you just haven’t got a clue. Beforehand you can get her all teed up and afterwards you can know all about it. But now, it’s hopeless.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 220/2: Tea’d (or teed) up. [...] 2. Exhilarated from any cause.