Green’s Dictionary of Slang

potted adj.¹

(US) drunk.

1908		T.A. Dorgan in Zwilling TAD Lex. (1993) 65: When is a man potted?
1914		Day Book (Chicago) 9 July 16: Is a ‘lit up’ actor a potted ham?
1918		A.W. Miller diary 26 June 🌐 I celebrated by getting potted on champagne.
1924		P. Marks Plastic Age 149: If the old lady had n’t been there, I ’d ’a’ been potted about half the time. As it was, I drank enough gin and Scotch to float a battle-ship.
1933		‘William Juniper’ True Drunkard’s Delight 226: He is [...] potted-off.
1938		J. Weidman I Can Get It For You Wholesale 222: Why, he’s potted.
1948		(con. 1944) N. Mailer Naked and Dead 243: We can just get potted together.
1959		M. Richler Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1964) 133: She usually looked potted and there were some who said you don’t get like that on booze.
1968		G. Slatter Pagan Game (1969) 164: He’s a moral to get potted.
1970		E. Thompson Garden of Sand (1981) 76: He was a rotten loser, particularly when potted.
1983		C. Bukowski Hot Water Music 127: We were potted out of our lighttowers.
1989		H. Rawson Dict. of Invective (1991) 127–8: A state of intoxication, a.k.a. blind, bombed, cockeyed, crocked, loaded, looped, pickled, plastered, polluted, potted, smashed, stewed, stiff, stinking, stoned, wiped out, zonked.