Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties.
- adjective Caused or influenced by intoxication.
- adjective Overcome by strong feeling or emotion.
- noun A drunkard.
- noun A bout of drinking.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The regular past participle and a former preterit of
drink . - Bent; crooked: used to describe a bent screw which imparts a sidewise as well as an endwise motion to a nut.
- Intoxicated; inebriated; overcome, stupefied, or frenzied by alcoholic liquor: used chiefly in the predicate.
- Drenched or saturated.
- noun A spree; a drinking-bout.
- noun A case of drunkenness; a drunken person.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang A drunken condition; a spree.
- adjective Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used
attributively , but alwayspredicatively . - adjective Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective In a
state ofintoxication caused by theconsumption ofexcessive alcohol ,usually bydrinking alcoholic beverages . - adjective
Elated oremboldened . - noun A
habitual drinker , especially one who is frequentlyintoxicated . - noun A
drinking-bout ; a period ofdrunkenness . - noun A drunken state.
- verb Past participle of
drink - verb southern US Simple past of
drink .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a chronic drinker
- adjective as if under the influence of alcohol
- adjective stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
- noun someone who is intoxicated
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Examples
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The party was fun (lots of pretty people, free booze, good waitress, surprisingly racially mixed attendees**), but by 11: 30 I was drunk and DG was fall down drunk***, so it was time to go.
drbigbeef Diary Entry drbigbeef 2006
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On the train back to Brooklyn, a drunk is asleep in the seat for two at one end.
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If people tweet the word "beer," there's a seven-hour lag, on average, before there's a spike in the word "drunk."
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Chesterfield County police say an 18-year old man has died as the result of the injuries he received after what they call a drunk-driving crash.
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He was so freakin 'drunk, he could barely stand up.
Mike Ragogna: Motown & The Hitmen : Conversations with Smokey Robinson, Jimmy Ryan, and Sarah Sample Mike Ragogna 2010
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He was so freakin 'drunk, he could barely stand up.
Mike Ragogna: Motown & The Hitmen : Conversations with Smokey Robinson, Jimmy Ryan, and Sarah Sample Mike Ragogna 2010
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Rolling out of a pub drunk and swearing because you are drunk is not the same as fighting 10 drunks in the street with a small stick, a can of food additive and the backup of 2 officers.
Police Use Naughty Word *SHOCK* « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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He was so freakin 'drunk, he could barely stand up.
Mike Ragogna: Motown & The Hitmen : Conversations with Smokey Robinson, Jimmy Ryan, and Sarah Sample Mike Ragogna 2010
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/His voice is stillness, moss and rain/drunk from the forest ages long.
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/His voice is stillness, moss and rain/drunk from the forest ages long.
Children’s Poems About Rainforests and Their Creatures « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009
chained_bear commented on the word drunk
Jane: "I will not be a drunk where he's buried, and I cannot stay sober."
February 4, 2007
yarb commented on the word drunk
Jailed for being drunk,
but far from contrite...
- Peter Reading, After Sanraku Koshu, from Diplopic, 1983
June 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word drunk
"Now before anyone lectures me about advising under the influence, please note that writing an advice column is a lot like bowling: Not only can you do it drunk, you're probably better at it drunk. My good friend Miss Manners won't even look at her mail until she's ripped to the tits."
—Dan Savage, "Savage Love," August 17, 2006
August 6, 2008
lea commented on the word drunk
You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."
Charles Baudelaire
March 6, 2009
myth commented on the word drunk
you're as drunk as an owl! - the man who was thursday
Though weird as it is. You can also be as drunk as a boiled owl and lots more.
May 10, 2009