pissed drunk

adjective

Drunk, especially if extremely so; blind drunk.

Meanings

adjectivepissed drunk (not comparable)

alternative pissed-drunk

  1. not comparableDrunk, especially if extremely so; blind drunk.

    FRANK: I can't fucken stand it. Everybody gets pissed drunk and holds their breath going in the door.

    1989, Brendan Gleeson, Breaking Up, Passion Machine, →ISBN, page 7
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    James knocked on my door, pissed drunk, man, was he bombed, he had a .22 in his waist, a cowboy hat on and couldn't even talk. And I told him, listen, why don't you go away with that gun, man, I don't need no problems. And he went away.

    1987 [1808], New York (State). Court of Appeals., New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 4298

    It was like 'That's shit, man,' 'That's dogmeat,' and 'Hey, Keith, how could you play like that?' Bryan had this big silly grin on his face—he was pissed drunk—and he'd be pointing at Keith going 'Hey man you're shitfaced!'"

    1993 [1994], Sorelle Saidman, Bryan Adams: Everything He Does, Sidgwick & Jackson [originally Random House of Canada], →ISBN, page 78

    In all his years, Sam had been there to put back the pride that a "pissed drunk" father had eroded, to model (hu)man behavior, and to build all the other sundry things that make relations between any two people special.

    1995, CLA Journal, volumes 38-39, numbers 1-4, College Language Association (U.S.), page 317

    VIKKY: All right, when you marry Shalu we won't talk like this. But for now... (laughs, to Ajju) You know, he was pissed drunk, and was screaming at the top of his voice, 'I'll burn down this bloody factory ' - and he was trying to burn his own jhuggi!

    1996, Seagull Theatre Quarterly, numbers 11-19, Seagull Foundation for the Arts, page 15

    My wedding night, I hit my wife. I still regret it to this day. On our wedding day she was getting pissed drunk and acting like an idiot. She was acting like a fool, and I hit her. I told her to smarten up, that everyone was watching us and that she was acting like a fool, getting pissed drunk and staggering around.

    1997 September 30, Susan G. Drummond, “The Children under the Bed”, in Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation Into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 73

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

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Translations

Finnish umpikännissä
  • umpikännissäcompletely intoxicated
Hungarian holtrészeg
  • holtrészegcompletely intoxicated
Irish caoch ar meisce, caoch ar na cannaí
  • caoch ar meiscecompletely intoxicated
  • caoch ar na cannaícompletely intoxicated
  • caochtacompletely intoxicated
  • dalltacompletely intoxicated
Polish pijany jak świnia, zalany w trupa
  • pijany jak świniacompletely intoxicated
  • zalany w trupacompletely intoxicated
  • urżniętycompletely intoxicated
  • pijany jak belacompletely intoxicated
  • pijany jak szewccompletely intoxicated
  • nawalony jak Messerschmittcompletely intoxicated
  • pijany w sztokcompletely intoxicated
  • w pestkęcompletely intoxicated
  • w sztokcompletely intoxicated
  • w trupacompletely intoxicated
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