syphed up

adjective

Afflicted with syphilis; syphilitic.

Meanings

adjectivesyphed up (comparative more syphed up, superlative most syphed up)

comparative more syphed up · superlative most syphed up · alternative siffed-up · alternative siffed up · alternative syphed-up

  1. USslangAfflicted with syphilis; syphilitic.

    I am the siffed-up redhead being let out of the car on the corner.

    1968, Charles Bukowski, letter, 20 April, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 103
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    And then, I always tell myself if I get siffed up, I'll merely knock myself off, put the old gun in my mouth.

    1960, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Clem Anderson

    She wanted to die. She was a syphed-up junkie whore, she'd have died before she was forty of malnutrition or an accidental OD […].

    1974, Joe Gores, Interface
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