souped

comparative more souped · superlative most souped

1. New EnglandslangExcited.
2. In trouble or in difficulty. (Compare in the soup.)

   Luck I had the presenee [sic] of mind to dive into Manning's or I was souped.

   1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, section II

3. slangIntoxicated, drunk.

   […] souped to the gills. He had been drinking with his buddies while momma lay in a hospital bed. He was face down on the floor laughing and singing.

   2012 08, Tammy Tucker, The River Bottoms, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 166

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   'There's always morphine,' he said, and I imagined myself, in a bed crisp as blank paper, tubes up my nose and in my arms, souped to the eyeballs on morphine and trying to tell my friends what I thought of them.

   2018, Cate Kennedy, Dark Roots, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN, page 26

4. slangUnder the influence of narcotics.

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of soup