单词 | beered-up |
释义 | beered-upadj. colloquial (originally U.S.). Drunk, esp. on beer; (now) often with the implication of resultant antisocial behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > with specific drink wine-drunkenOE in wine1594 wine-belly1603 wine-sprung1633 wined1640 citroned1754 genevered1755 sherry1770 toddied1842 beer-bemuddled1848 cocktailed1856 pinko1917 beered-up1933 1933 Nevada State Jrnl. 21 May 1/1 Pie-eyed, mellow,..tanked, beered-up... And then, in emergencies you can use the word drunk. 1968 Economist 13 Apr. 64/3 Property owned by a small group of pro-Spanish businessmen..was smashed up by beered-up workers. 1984 W. G. Tapply Dutch Blue Error ix. 123 We have our share of housebreaks, beered-up teenagers smashing mailboxes. 2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xv. 165 Old boozers tarted up in the Eighties, quiet now, hours until their guts heaved with beered-up bodies. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1933 |
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