Green’s Dictionary of Slang

boozed adj.

drunk.

1737		B. Franklin ‘Drinkers Dictionary’ in Pennsylvania Gazette 6 Jan. in AS XII:2 90: They come to be well understood to signify plainly that A MAN IS DRUNK. [...] Bowz’d.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1850		P. Crook War of Hats 50: Boozed in their tavern dens, / The scurrill Press drove all their dirty pens [F&H].
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 55/1: She ‘lushed’ so much with every one there that she got completely ‘boosed’.
1866		Wild Boys of London I 120/2: Mat got slightly boozed.
1879		Dodge City Times 27 Dec. in Miller & Snell Why the West was Wild 405: Means was pretty well ‘boozed,’ as the saying is.
1879		London Life 12 July 5/2: [H]ow much better it is to be an Englishman and get boozed on four half, than to drink French brandy [...] till you have D. T.
1882		Daily Tel. 6 Oct. 2: Now, I’ve got to come home boozed, don’t you know, and you are sitting up for me, and you begin to snack me about it, and then there’s a jolly row.
1886		Lantern (N.O.) 22 Sept. 3: This fortune teller gets boozed up.
1891		Bird o’ Freedom (Sydney) 11 Apr. 1/2: When a sober, intelligent citizen has filled up his census paper [...] should he afterwards submit to the dictation of a boozed-up ‘collector?’.
1894		Truth (Sydney) 18 Mar. 2/6: My cove [...] ’ll soon be too boozed t’ notice enything, an’ then I’ll do a flutter with you.
1896		F. Hutcheson Barkeep Stories 39: ‘It don’t do fer a guy dat’s boozed t’ have much dealin’s wid dem kind o’ guys [i.e. magicians’.
1897		W.S. Maugham Liza of Lambeth (1966) 44: Well, I believe I’m boozed.
1901		W.S. Walker In the Blood 23: See that cove? Ain’t he boozed up, proper?
1904		Sun. Times (Perth) 17 Jan. 1/1: His half-boozed boasts of his unassailable security are the joke of Perth pubs.
1905		Sporting Times 25 Mar. 13/3: Boozed again, Sonny! Whenever I meet you now, you’re on the verge of paralysis.
1908		‘O. Henry’ ‘The Exact Science of Matrimony’ in Gentle Grafter (1915) 73: Drinking some dyspepsia cure [...] instead of the liniment that he always got boozed up on.
1910		‘Doss Chiderdoss’ ‘Landmarks’ Sporting Times 12 Nov. 2/2: I must have been boozed at the time.
1910		Sun. Times (Perth) 13 Feb. 2nd sect. 1/1: They Say [...] That as the latter got boozed before departing, they talked when tiddly.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 241: The last night pa was boosed he was standing on the landing bawling out for his boots to go out to Tunney’s for to boose more.
1923		P. MacGill Moleskin Joe 100: Father Nolan, I’m not boozed!
1929		S. Ornitz Haunch Paunch and Jowl 59: It was the Five Points cellar places, where scrubwomen, mostly past middle age, begrimed, frowsy, boozed up, were available to the scanty purses of boys.
1937		J. Curtis There Ain’t No Justice 205: You’d have probably won a bit of dough, got yourself boozed up and then spilled the whole story.
1939		K. Tennant Foveaux 49: Eight-Hour Day and a rush on, and that’s the time you get boozed.
1945		J. Maclaren-Ross Swag, the Spy and the Soldier in Lehmann Penguin New Writing No. 26 32: He got boozed up instead.
1945		L. Hoban ‘Time to Kill’ Crack Detective Jan. 🌐 He was corn-cockeyed, a boozed-bosky, a lush-lalapalooza.
1958		P. Larkin letter 10 Jan. in Thwaite Sel. Letters (1992) 282: I was so boozed I made advances to someone’s wife, pissed in a bath, & read the opening paragraph of The Wings of a Dove.
1959		G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 83: People thought he was crackers or boozed-up at first.
1963		Dundes & Schonhorn ‘Kansas University Sl.: A New Generation’ in AS XXXVIII:3 174: Some of the less frequent, but apparently equally traditional, adjectives are: [...] boozed.
1968		P. Terson Apprentices (1970) I iv: And me, I’ll be the boozed up champion of the Mason’s Arms Snooker Hall.
1977		(con. 1940–50s) Nicholson & Smith Spend, Spend, Spend (1978) 20: Wednesday was his favourite day because it was sick-pay day and he could get boozed up.
1985		B. Humphries Traveller’s Tool 107: A good deal better than shoving a grog trolley up the aisle of a Boeing past a lot of boozed-up Samsonite-bashers.
1998		L. Stringer Grand Central Winter (1999) 49: Old timers, boozed-out winos, crashed-out crackheads.
1999		J. Ridley Love Is a Racket 87: In While the City Sleeps, he was so boozed up they had to write it into the character.
2002		D.H. Sterry Chicken (2003) 129: Braddy all boozed up driving head-on into a bus.
2011		S. Kelman Pigeon English 59: They won’t kill us today. They’re too busy getting boozed.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 29: Boozed-out college kids.