Green’s Dictionary of Slang

bottled adj.²

drunk.

1883		Manchester Courier 17 Nov. 6/5: A man named Richartd Heaton [...] got ‘welly bottled’ (drunk) on the day before the explosion.
1917		Lancs. Eve. Post 26 Mar. 2/3: The conductor says they were under the influence of drink, and the driver [...] that she was bottled up and drunk.
1922		‘Sapper’ Black Gang 292: He was doped, and I was bottled.
c.1930		(ref. to late 19C) N. Kimball Amer. Madam (1981) 233: Kate Townsend, a famous madam who was usually bottled.
1942		A. Christie Body in the Library (1959) 147: Bottled, was he?
1944		R.L. Bellem ‘Killer’s Cure’ Hollywood Det. Mar. 🌐 She was so bottled she couldn’t have hit the sidewalk with a handful of soybeans.
1967		L. Bruce Essential Lenny Bruce 99: He’s bottled out, get him.
1980		T. Lewis GBH 258: ‘Was he bottled last night! Mind you, we all were’.