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List of slang terms for drunkenness

Slang terms for being drunk include:

  • aled up (mainly North UK)
  • arseholed
  • ball hair
  • battered
  • beered up
  • bevvyed
  • bladdered
  • blasted
  • blitzed **
  • blotto
  • blootered
  • bollocksed
  • bombed
  • bulletproof
  • buzzed *
  • caned **
  • cooked
  • crunked
  • destroyed
  • discombobulated
  • faced
  • faded
  • flaming
  • fried
  • frying
  • fucked/fucked up (not exclusively for drunkenness, of course) **
  • gassed
  • gone (e.g. "he's so far gone!")
  • gunned
  • hairy uncle dan
  • half-cut
  • hammered
  • happy * **
  • high *
  • honkeyed
  • hootered
  • hosed (largely Canadian usage)
  • hurt
  • inebriated
  • jacked **
  • legless
  • liquored up
  • loaded (as slang, generally not used in U.K. where it more normally means "wealthy") **
  • locked
  • lubricated
  • maggoted
  • mashed
  • merry *
  • mortal
  • newted (from "pissed as a newt")
  • nodding
  • off the path
  • one over the eight
  • one too many (to have had)
  • out of his/her head **
  • out of it **
  • pie-eyed
  • pissed (generally not used in U.S., as pissed in the U.S. means "angry"; variants: "Pissed as a newt", "Pissed out of his/her skull", "Pissed to the eyeballs"...)
  • parcel forced
  • plastered
  • plowed
  • popped
  • pounded
  • railed
  • rat-arsed / ratted
  • razzed
  • ripped
  • sauce monster
  • shikker (Yiddish)
  • shit-canned
  • shit-faced
  • shnockered
  • skunked (from "drunk as a skunk", note: different etymology of "cannabis-intoxicated" meaning, from "skunk", a type of marijuana) **
  • slaughtered
  • slammed
  • sloppy
  • sloshed
  • smashed
  • snockered
  • soused
  • sozzled
  • spiced
  • spraked
  • squiffed / squiffy
  • steaming
  • stewed
  • stoned
  • swallied (Glasgow slang)
  • tanked
  • tanked up
  • three sheets to/in the wind
  • tiddly *
  • tipsy *
  • tired and emotional (used to describe politicians who make fools of themselves when drunk, see Private Eye)
  • toasted
  • totally awesome
  • trashed **
  • tripping
  • trollied
  • tweaking
  • under the influence
  • under the table
  • wankered
  • wasted **
  • wazzocked
  • wiped out **
  • zonked **

* Refers to slight drunkenness. ** Refers to the influence of other recreational drugs as well as alcohol, most frequently marijuana.



07-14-2008 23:18:10
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