gassed adj.1
drunk or drugged; thus half-gassed, tipsy.
![]() | TAD Lex. (1993) 38: Joe gimme a mug of white mint [...] Pour it out or I’ll pull the bar down. No — you’re gassed now. | in Zwilling|
![]() | (con. WWI) Soldier and Sailor Words 103: Gassed: drunk. | |
![]() | Nottingham Eve. Post 1 Nov. 7/6: ‘I met a pal or two I was soldiering with and we got “gassed”,’ said an ex-soldier charged with drunkenness. | |
![]() | Argot: Dict. of Und. Sl. 20: gassed up-drunk on wood alki, mixed with gasoline. | |
![]() | Dark Ship 213: Anyone gassed up, brothers, will be fined five dollars and tossed out. | |
![]() | On the Waterfront (1964) 72: He was a little drunk — half-gassed he would have called it. | |
![]() | Return of the Hood 82: She was gassed to the ears, a drunken smirk twisting her mouth. | |
![]() | Black Short Story Anthol. (1972) 67: There were three fights [...] one in the balcony between two gassed-head dudes over a girl. | ‘Dandy’ in King|
![]() | Rivethead (1992) 57: By night’s end you’d be totally gassed and ornery enough to punch out your own grandmother. | |
![]() | Hurricane Punch 224: Everyone in our group but me is completely gassed. | |
![]() | What They Was 38: Mandem getting gassed on camera. | |
![]() | (con. 1962) Enchanters 14: He was half-gassed and far-gone panicked. |