half cut

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1. AustraliaCanadaIrelandUKinformalRather drunk.

   You think: "That old fella's woken up still half-cut and put on his girlfriend's shoes by mistake."

   2010 January 9, Alexis Petridis, “Ugg boots for men? No thanks”, in The Guardian

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   He had the girl's head on his shoulder but she was half cut and in her seventh heaven, so he just went on talking to me, proud of his English, you see.

   1974, John Le Carré, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Folio, published 2009, page 233

   Drink up thy zider, drink up thy zider, For tonight we'll merry be. We'll knock the milk churns over and roll 'em in the clover, for the corn's half cut and so be we!

   1975 July 28, “Drink Up Thy Zider” (track 6), in The Finest 'Arvest of The Wurzels, performed by The Wurzels

   Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her Mum running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven. Her Dad and her uncle arguing hammer and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner.

   2009, Death in Blackpool (The New Eighth Doctor Adventures; 4.01), Big Finish, publisher's summary

   Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken