drunker than a skunker

A form of drunk as a skunk — Highly inebriated.

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Meanings

adjectivedrunker than a skunker (comparative form only)
  1. alternativecolloquialcomparative onlyraresimileAlternative form of drunk as a skunk (“highly inebriated”).

    Id rather be drunker than a skunker than sober as a gopher

    2016 July 10, @jhelsing17, Twitter
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    Carol Highberger Henry, 59, of Jefferson, La., was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol when she was stopped after driving through several front lawns on Santa Anna Drive around 9:20 p.m. Monday. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Henry refused to take sobriety tests, instead repeatedly saying to officers, "I'm drunker than a skunker."

    2005 August 4, Carol Highberger Henry, quotee, “West Police News”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    "Yo, looser as a gooser." This bit of non-standard English, scarcely intelligible even to native speakers, was clear evidence that Mac was drunker than a skunker. But he was still sober enough to navigate. He went upstairs to the topmost balcony and stood just inside the door. Leaning against the wall, he looked down at the scene below.

    2008, Peter Innes, The Man with the Grasshopper Mind, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 37

    I don't know if you follow him and his comments but it has been worse and I mean he came across as drunker than a skunker...

    2021 March 11, @Jennife77965809, Twitter

    Is a random Tuesday and my friend just called my phone drunker than a skunker goodbye. I have work in the morning.😒

    2025 June 18, @_xbriaaaaaa, Twitter

Origin

From drunker + than + a + skunker, formed by analogy with drunker than a skunk so that it rhymes.

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Chicago

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