Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. drunk; also fig. use.

1737		Pennsylvania Gazette 13 Jan. 1/3: He’s Jagg’d .
1895		J.S. Wood Yale Yarns 9: If he hadn’t been somewhat jagged, he never would have given it away. [Ibid.] 115: I know — er — he’d been drinking, I suppose, quite jagged!
1902		C.L. Cullen More Ex-Tank Tales 148: Another jagged individual turned up in the ring with five-dollar notes to put on the rank outsider.
1908		Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Oct. 14/3: It’s out in th’ country towns were y’r strike th’ jagged joints.
1915		M.G. Hayden ‘Terms Of Disparagement’ in DN IV:iii 212: jagged, drunk. ‘That poor man is pretty well jagged’.
1921		Dos Passos Three Soldiers 79: We raised hell until [...] both of us sort of jagged up, an’ we didn’t have enough money to pay the bill.
1922		H.L. Wilson Merton of the Movies 194: I guess he got kind of jagged on the food, see?
1931		A. Hardin ‘Volstead English’ in AS VII:2 88: Terms referring to the state of intoxication: [...] Verbs: Jagged.
1947		B. Stiles Serenade to the Big Bird 120: All of them got pretty jagged on the scotch.
1953		K. Tennant Joyful Condemned 204: [They] get sort of jagged and weepy about nothing.

2. intoxicated by drugs.

1938		C. Himes ‘Pork Chop Paradise’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 266: She made him smoke pot and when he got jagged [...] she put him out on the street.
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 311: jagged up. Drug-exhilarated.
1959		J.E. Schmidt Narcotics Lingo and Lore 93: Jagged up – Of a drug addict, under the effect of a narcotic spree.
1999		J. Ridley Love Is a Racket 94: As if living like a jagged-up slug while you tote around more money than most small-town banks was normal. [Ibid.] 182: Only thing worse than being jagged on drugs is being dry of them.