pissed up adj.
very drunk.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | (con. 1916) Her Privates We (1986) 29: They went into Sandy for a spree, and got properly pissed-up there. | |
| letter 1 Apr. in Leader (2000) 53: I am a little pissed-up. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Battle Cry (1964) 10: I’m going to the slop shute and get pissed up. | |
| Start in Life (1979) 324: I don’t like pissed-up young tiddleywinks making tests on me, so watch it. | |
| Who’s Been Sleeping in my Bed 22: All the drunks laughin’ their socks off, shoutin’ pissed-up things like, ‘Watch out, there’s danger about’. | |
| If... 12 Feb. in If Files (1997) 131: All these pissed-up teenagers. | |
| Guardian Guide 29 Jan.–4 Feb. 6: Getting drunk when he should have been training and breaking his fist in a pissed-up brawl with a railway porter. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Gutted 209: Upwards of fifty jakeys [...] pished up and ready to rumble. | |
| Decent Ride 111: Thaire’s a bit ay a mess oan the streets [..] but nowt different tae what pished-up cunts dae every fuckin weekend! | |
| April Dead 15: [A]n angry and pissed-up Greenock Wide Boy. |
In phrases
a general phr. of discontent, based on the premise that one has drunk away one’s wages and there’s nothing left to show for a week’s work.
| DSUE (1984) 13/2: since ca. 1910. |