Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. extremely drunk.

1900		Ade More Fables in Sl. (1960) 168: ‘It may be that I was a mite Polluted,’ he suggested.
1914		Joyce ‘Grace’ Dubliners (1956) 158: ‘It happened that you were peloothered, Tom,’ said Mr Cunningham gravely.
1919		Wodehouse Damsel in Distress (1961) 139: I also – I myself – Reginald Byng, in person – was perhaps a shade polluted during the evening.
1934		(con. 1920s) J.T. Farrell Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 224: Well, you was polluted last night.
1949		Wodehouse Mating Season 29: I was perhaps a mite polluted.
1958		(con. 1950) E. Frankel Band of Brothers 282: I am not tight or plastered, polluted, greased, blind, sozzled, ossified or atomized.
1963		Dundes & Schonhorn ‘Kansas University Sl.: A New Generation’ in AS XXXVIII:3174: Some of the less frequent, but apparently equally traditional, adjectives are: [...] polluted.
1971		(con. 1920s) J. Brown Monkey Off My Back (1972) 47: After getting polluted [he] decided to do something real daring.
1983		Eble Campus Sl. Nov.
1991		R. Doyle Van (1998) 421: All ages, he’d told them. – Polluted out of their heads.
1996		Eble Sl. and Sociability 45: Among the synonyms for drunk are [...] polluted, ripped out of one’s gourd, ripped to the tits.
2005		J. Stahl I, Fatty 176: Two obviously polluted showgirls.

2. (drugs) intoxicated by a drug.

1937		B. Dai Opium Addiction in Chicago 202: Polluted. Filled with drugs.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore.
2002		T. Dorsey Triggerfish Twist (2002) 87: ‘How do you feel?’ asked Bernie. Coleman looked slowly around the room. ‘[...] polluted.’.

3. (Aus.) a term of abuse.

1973

(con. 1940s–60s) Hogbotel & ffuckes ‘The Bastard from the Bush’ in Snatches and Lays 83: ‘You low polluted bastard,’ snarled the Captain of the Push.