Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (also choked off, choked up, choky) upset, annoyed, depressed, having ‘a lump in one’s throat’.

1890		‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer III 112: They’ve [cattle] had something to eat, but they’re pretty well choked for a drink.
1894		Civil & Milit. Gaz. (Lahore) 18 Oct. 4/3: I’m fair choked off Ingy / It’s gittin’ played out fer T.A.
1909		Eve. Star (Wash., DC) 11 Sept. 20/2: They’re there with the big-noise mitt for the goody folks and the hiss-ss-ss thing for the punkerinos and the briny gag for the choky passages.
1915		T. Burke Nights in Town 127: Feel all choky, like, don’t you? [...] You’ll be all right in a minute.
1922		Joyce Ulysses 11: Have you a key? a voice asked. — Dedalus has it, Buck Mulligan said, Janey Mack, I’m choked.
1944		T. Thursday ‘Twin Lose or Draw’ in Popular Sports Spring 🌐 ‘Thanks, kid,’ I said, somewhat choked.
1954		J. Thompson Swell-Looking Babe 15: He was too choked up, blind with anger.
1962		F. Norman Guntz 14: When I woke [...] Jess had gone and I was double choked.
1965		E. Bond Saved Scene viii: Don’t yer get choked off.
1969		P. Theroux Murder in Mount Holly (1999) 15: He got choked up. Something of a patriotic nature always brought rheum to his eyes.
1976		N. Thornburg Cutter and Bone (2001) 242: Just because she [...] didn’t get all choked up about stumps and scar tissue.
1978		F. Norman Dead Butler Caper 130: I was beginning to feel choked off with the pair of them.
1985		S. Berkoff West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 110: If at twelve o’clock I walk home on my tod sloan I would be well and truly choked.
1999		Observer Rev. 4 July 12: I was choked up at the time.
2000		Guardian G2 26 May 2: He was absolutely choked up to see the effect that the garden made on people.

2. (also choked up) overcome with laughter.

1952		(con. 1936) G. Fowler Schnozzola 193: Durante choked up, and Lou lent him his handkerchief.
1958		(con. 1940s) B. Behan Borstal Boy 266: I’m bloody choked.

3. (US campus) drunk.

1991		Eble Campus Sl. Mar.
1996		Eble Sl. and Sociability 127: Slang terms for drunkenness from just the two school years 1990–92 show great linguistic energy: [...] caked, choked, crocked.