zonked

comparative more zonked · superlative most zonked

1. slangExtremely fatigued.

   After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.

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   zoegirl:yeah, but don’t say anything to my mom about it. (not that u would.) hey, i’ve gotta go to bed. i’m zonked.

   2004, Lauren Myracle, ttyl, New York, NY: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 57

   (yawns) I'm so zonked. The red alerts from that wormhole kept me up half the night. / Oh, I know. It's, like, are we crossing the event horizon or not? Like, I don't care actually. I just want you to pick one.

   2021 August 19, Chris Kula, “Kayshon, His Eyes Open” (0:08 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 2, spoken by D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells)

   "Anyone up for a game of parcheesi?" / "Maybe a movie. I'm zonked." / "The Brothers McMullin?"

   2023 August 31, Jake Bender, Zach Dunn, Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, w, Paul Simms, “Exit Interview” (22:36 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 10, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou)

   Synonyms: knackered, weary, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, bushed, tired out

2. slangDeeply asleep.

   I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.

   Synonyms: dead asleep, fast asleep, asleep, cold, comatose, dead to the world, dormant, down for the count

3. slangDrunk; intoxicated.

   […] playing eight-ball while zonked, chugging beer with locals […]

   2004, Ed Sanders, Tales of beatnik glory

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   The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs.

   1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 253

   [S]wingers in the audience were getting zonked on beer and fresh sea breezes and sound […]

   1974 July 28, “(please specify the article title)”, in New York, volume 7, number 27, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Synonyms: boozy, inebriated, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind