shicker
/ˈʃɪkə
/(also shikker) US & Australian /NZ informal
adjective
(also shickered /ˈʃɪkəd/) [predicative] Drunk: they got shickered, talked cars and deals...
- Every year on Robbie Burns Night, 25 January, the clans gather to pay homage to both the carousing poet and the humble haggis and to get gloriously shikkered on Glenfiddich whisky.
- He goes off every day, and comes in every night after closing time, shikkered up.
- Sounds like a perfect birthday for someone like yourself… and I'd never have the guts to talk with the chef, shickered or not.
noun
A drunk: they’ll think for sure you’re a shicker...
- For this album, a tribute to the alleged shikkers of yore, London assembled a superstar ensemble of brass players from the world's top klezmer bands, including members of the Klezmatics, Brave Old World, the Klezmer Conservatory Band, Naftule's Dream and KlezMs.
- This is reinforced by the well-known Yiddish proverb, ‘The shikker [drunk] is a goy.’
- Unfortunately, the baker in question was apparently something of a shikker, and this is the cake that actually ended up on display at the reception…
Phrases
be (or go) on the shicker
Origin
Late 19th century: from Yiddish shiker, from Hebrew šikkōr, from šākar 'be drunk'.
Rhymes
- baseballer
- baseball finger
- baseball glove
- baseball hat
- baseballist
- baseball mitt
- baseball shirt
- baseband
- baseboard
- baseboard heater
- baseboard heating
- baseborn
- base box
- base burner
- base-burning
- base camp
- base case
- base chamber
- base circle
- base coat
- base community
- base court
- base current
- base dance
- base dressing