stoned

What it means

1. Containing stones.
2. Having had the stones removed.
3. archaicslangDrunk; intoxicated by alcohol.

   STONED: drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world.

   1952 September 29, “"BOP VOCABULARY" section, inside of "That Crazy Bop Joke Craze"”, in LIFE Magazine, New York, U.S., page 67

   1 more example

   'He could be a mean drunk,' said saxophonist Artie Drelinger. '[…] Booze was his priority, and when he was stoned he could be a son of a bitch.'

   2002, Frederick J. Spencer, Jazz and Death: Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats

   Synonyms: blotto, ebrious, paralytic, wasted, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms

In a sentence

STONED: drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world.

1952 September 29, “"BOP VOCABULARY" section, inside of "That Crazy Bop Joke Craze"”, in LIFE Magazine, New York, U.S., page 67

Where it comes from

1. Italianstonato“out of tune, off-key”
2. Middle Englishstoned
3. Englishstoned

From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed. The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully clear. It could be derived from stone drunk, a common slang expression from the mid-19th to early-20th century. It is more frequently theorized to be a phono-semantic matching of Italian-American slang stunod (“dazzled, stupid”), from Italian stonato (“out of tune, off-key”). In 1952, Life Magazine listed it in a glossary of bop musician slang, in the sense of "drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world" (see quote). This could lend further credence to the idea of the word originating from a musical term.