wobbly boots

noun

A state of intoxication such that one cannot walk steadily.

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Meanings

nounwobbly boots pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyA state of intoxication such that one cannot walk steadily.

    She'd be unsteady on her feet or, to put it Gayle's way, wearing wobbly boots.

    2002, Beverley Harper, Jackal's Dance
    2 more examples

    I smiled back for him, thought about you, wondered what kind of night you were having, whether you had your wobbly boots on yet.

    2000, Nigel Featherstone, Joy, page 156

    A father and his two big sons had put their “wobbly boots” on after drinking hard in the pub round the corner.

    2011, Robin Barratt, The Mammoth Book of Hard Bastards
  2. pluralplural onlyUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wobbly, boots.
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