Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. drunk.

1951		Kerouac On the Road (The Orig. Scroll) (2007) 192: I had finished the wine [...] and I was proper stoned.
1961		T. Taylor Baron’s Court All Change (2011) 24: I was stoned as hell [...] pissed as a newt.
1962		J. Blake letter 3 June in Joint (1972) 181: First time I’ve been stoned on lush for six years.
1964		‘Charles Barrett’ Address: Kings Cross 50: One of them was stoned, completely and utterly out to it.
1970		G.F. Newman Sir, You Bastard 115: Sneed [...] made a point of getting stoned on scotch.
1980		A. Burgess Earthly Powers 29: Not [...] knocking it back? Not getting stoned or blind or anything?
1986		H. Selby Jr Song of the Silent Snow (1988) 79: I keep tellin ya every fuckin time [...] to just take a couple a drinks an cool it but you gotta get stoned an go fuckin crazy.
1999		Guardian Rev. 9 July 11: She purrs like a girl who’s seen the world, shared its bourbon, crashed out stoned on its kitchen floor.
2000		C. Cook Robbers (2001) 65: Half them pilots is stoned.
2016		C. Eble (ed.) UNC-CH Campus Sl. Spring 2016.

2. intoxicated with some form of drug; thus stoned out of one’s mind, very intoxicated indeed.

1951		Kerouac letter 8 Jan. in Charters I (1995) 278: I stood completely stoned on the sidewalk in unbelievable and heavenly rapture.
1966		T. Keyes All Night Stand 95: People were diving off the balconies, stoned out of their minds.
1970		E. Tidyman Shaft 116: A man was entitled to get stoned.
1977		C. McFadden Serial 80: Gentle, nonaggressive and stoned out of his mind.
1985		N. Pileggi Wiseguy (2001) 220: I got so paranoid and stoned.
1990		(con. 1930s–60s) H. Huncke Guilty of Everything (1998) 241: One night [...] I was stoned out of my mind on goofballs.
1998		G. Burn Happy Like Murderers 65: They were both so stoned. So laid back that they were horizontal, was that what they used to say?
1999		R.G. Barrett Wind & Monkey (2013) [ebook] Why didn’t I throw the cunt off the balcony earlier when he was stoned? fumed Norton.
2001		A. Sillitoe Birthday 92: I must have been stoned out of my mind when I first made a grab at you.
2006		D. Seabrook Jack of Jumps (2007) 211: Or was the other woman drunk? Blocked? Stoned?
2006		B. Matthews Intractable [ebook] Haley gave me a joint. That night I got stoned off my tits.
2010		K. Richards Life 156: And of course, beginning in ’65, I’m starting to get stoned [...] which also intensified my impressions of what was going on.
2015		L. McInerney Glorious Heresies 22: They’d drink together, or get stoned.
2017		A. Parks Bloody January 12: [T]oo stoned to go anywhere.
2020		G. Armstrong Young Team 50: A went in stoned oot ma heed.
2020		C. Hiaasen Squeeze Me 14: ‘I’d get stoned too, cooped up all day’.
2021		L. McInerney Rules of Revelation 7: ‘You look stoned, boy’.

3. ecstatic, without drink or drugs.

1954		‘Bop Dict.’ in Mad mag. Mar. 20: Stoned – joyous state of mind, crazy, cool, flipping and kicks rolled into one! [Ibid.] 21: Now that you have pinned the bop dictionary and are hep, prepare to get stoned. [Ibid.] Nov. 7: When I dig that crazy Caesar I’m stoned even if I’m digging him six feet under!
1971		J. Mandelkau Buttons 89: I was stoned blind with what the brothers had done.