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  • adjective slang drunk

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Examples

  • We get tired of hearing how sophisticated "caf é culture" and civilized 24-hour drinking doesn't work here because two hours into the 24 everyone's blootered, four hours into the 24 everyone's having a fight and six hours into the 24 we've all been arrested and are being sick on the way to the cells.

    After the Binge Must Come the Purge Sam Leith 2011

  • He said he'd like to be a Green MEP one day so he was clearly blootered ;

    The shame of Green bloggers Jeff 2009

  • Prince Harry is in the army now, and must behave as such; basically that involves going into town on a night off, getting blootered on gallons of pikey booze and starting as many fights as humanly possible – and that was Prince Harry's Saturday.

    Prince Harry: The Stone Cold Killer? 2007

  • 'Well,' Parlabane said, touching the Elastoplast on his cheek, 'I was thinking of going to the pub and getting well and truly blootered, then making a pass at you shortly before I collapse.'

    Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

  • Their idea of a great party seemed to consist of a handful of them gathering in a room, cracking a few jokes about children catching cancer and then keeling over forty minutes later utterly blootered by the swift and repeated swallowing of a foul-tasting primitive spirit distilled from potatoes.

    Harry's Place 2009

  • It's a pity binge-drinkers aren't told "This is the birthplace of the NHS - tread lightly there" before they get blootered.

    unknown title 2009

  • It's a pity binge-drinkers aren't told "This is the birthplace of the NHS - tread lightly there" before they get blootered.

    unknown title 2009

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  • Scots - drunk.

    December 27, 2007

  • One of my Irish friends used this tonight (when we were discussing what happens on St Paddy's day). Obviously its use is not as exclusively Scottish as I had thought.

    March 17, 2010

  • (adjective) - (1) Very tired; exhausted. From blooter, to thrash, beat severely.

    --Michael Traynor's The English Dialect of Donegal, 1953

    (2) Dauled, worn out; limp; tired.

    --Jabez Good's Glossary of East Lincolnshire, 1900

    (3) Dilvered, tired out. Still used to mean "drunk."

    --Edward Gepp's Essex Dialect Dictionary, 1923

    January 14, 2018