damaged adj.
(orig. US) drunk, or hungover.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Sporting Mag. Nov. I 72/2: I am frequently much damaged before I have exhausted the contents of the fourth [bottle]. | |
| Way to Get Married in Inchbold (1808) XXV 53: Dashall: You seem a little damaged. Allspice: Yes, funny, an’t I? I got hold of a little bottle [...] it was devilish good. | |
| A School for Grown Children IV i: Breakfast, immediately! Anything simple, for I feel rather damaged. | |
| Finish to the Adventures of Tom and Jerry (1889) 187: The ‘High-bred One’ [was] greatly damaged in his upper works. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Burlington Sentinel in (1856) 461: We give a list of a few of the various words and phrases which have been in use, at one time or another, to signify some stage of inebriation: [...] damaged. | |
| True Drunkard’s Delight. | |
| , | | DAS. |
In compounds
1. (US) infected with a sexually transmitted disease.
| Job 257: She had reason to believe her husband was damaged goods. She crept to an old family doctor and had a fainting joy to find that she had escaped contamination. |
2. (US) sexually unfaithful.
 | (con. 1990) Jarhead 91: ‘That bitch is damaged goods [...] Right now she’s dorking some hotel clerk. Unfaithful is unfaithful’. |