langersadj.
/ˈlaŋəz/, U.S. /ˈlæŋərz/, Irish English /ˈlæŋərz/ colloquial (originally and chiefly Irish English).
Very drunk; intoxicated. Chiefly in predicative use. Cf. langered adj.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk
drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350
to-drunka1382
as drunk as the devilc1400
sow-drunk1509
fish-drunk1591
swine-drunk1592
gone1603
far gone1616
reeling drunk1620
soda1625
souseda1625
blind1630
full1631
drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652
as full (or tight) as a tick1678
clear1688
drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700
as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727
as drunk as a piper1728
blind-drunkc1775
bitch foua1796
blootered1820
whole-seas over1820
three sheets in the wind1821
as drunk as a loon1830
shellaced1881
as drunk as a boiled owl1886
stinking1887
steaming drunk1892
steaming with drink1897
footless1901
legless1903
plastered1912
legless drunk1926
stinko1927
drunk as a pissant1930
kaylied1937
langers1949
stoned1952
smashed1962
shit-faced1963
out of (also off) one's bird1966
trashed1966
faced1968
stoned1968
steaming1973
langered1979
annihilated1980
obliterated1984
wankered1992
muntered1998
1949 C. Graves Ireland Revisited i. 20 Words to discriminate the various degrees of intoxication... You have..spifflu, langers, and stocious.
1969 Munster (Ireland) Express 16 May 11/6 If there's one thing that makes me squirm, it's to hear a teetotaller, in that coy, patronising way, telling tales on a client who took a few jars... If a mate gets ‘langers’, you don't keep..telling all and sundry that he had to be carried home speechless.
1997 M. Keyes Rachel's Holiday xl. 345 After that her drinking got worse so that she was langers every night of the week and most of the days too.
2016 @ThePatrickk 20 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 1 May 2021) Everyone was so langers last night I loved it.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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adj.1949