Surely There’s a Word for It
“DRUNK, adj. tight, tipsy, bombed, bombed out, bombed out of one’s skull, skulled, booty, blown, blitzed, bobo, crocked, cockeyed, wearing beer goggles, Coke bottle-eyed (all women look beautiful), soused, stewed, stiff, stinko, stinking, Mickey Finished, plastered, DWI (driving while intoxicated), potatoed, flat-lined, hammered, tattered, pie-eyed, wasted, trashed, squashed, totaled, totaled out, fractured, looped, loopy, high, high as a kite, higher than a kite, blind, blotto, giffed, gone, gone under, under the influence, DUI (driving under the influence), boozed-up, juiced, juiced-up, stoned, howled, tanked, tanked-up, roaring, roaring drunk, D.O.A., dead drunk, rolling drunk, stinking drunk, funky drunk, sloppy drunk, blind drunk, skunk-drunk, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a skunk in a trunk, drunk as a lord, potted, fried, faded, smashed, crashed, swacked, polluted, plootered, plotzed, turned on, tied one on, zonked, zonked out, zapped, zigzag, zooed, zoobang, zorked, zulued, loaded, carrying a load, carrying a heavy load, three bricks short of a load, feeling no pain, embalmed, on a tear, on a toot, on a bat, on a bender, on a binge, on a jag, on instruments, on the sauce, on the juice, on the shikker, schikker, shikkered, schnoggered, schnockkered, snokkered, snokkered up, stonkered, snootful, lubricated, mellow, ossified, paralyzed, petrified, pickled, pissed, pissed as a newt, pissed up to the eyebrows, pissed to the ears, pissy-eyed, pissy drunk, potsed, prestoned, padded, pasted, pied, pipped-up, racked-up, riffed, vulcanized, wall-eyed, well-oiled, wet, whooshed, woofled, woofy, woozy, ripped, put to bed with a shovel, faced, shit-faced, S.F., tuned, illuminated, lit, lit-up, lit up like a Christmas tree, lit a bit, lit to the gunnels, merry, hipped, out, out cold, out like a light, out on the roof, boiled, parboiled, balmy, behind the cork, bent, bleary eyed, boozed, boozy, bottled, bunned, buzzed, buzzy, blixed, stewed to the gills, boiled to the gills, fried to the gills, soused to the gills, lit to the gills, burned to the ground, slammed, canned, canned-up, comfortable, piffed, piffled, pifflicated, petrificated, pigeon-eyed, pixilated, plonked, potty, preserved, primed, pruned, rocky, rosy, rumdum, rummy, saturated, screaming, screeching, scronched, set-up, sent, shellacked, shot, shredded, soupy, sloppy, sloshed, slugged, smoked, snozzled, soaked, spiffed, spifflicated, spaced out, passed out, passed out cold, wicked-faced, giddy, fuddled, muddled, muzzy, dizzy, addled, seeing double, overtaken, corked, corned, cut, cut one’s wolf loose, crocko, afflicted, jug-bitten, organized, elevated, heading into the wind, three sheets to the wind, three sheets in the wind and the other one flapping, six sheets to the wind, tiddly, full of Dutch courage, with a bun on, cooked, crashed and burned, daquifried, decayed, ding-swizzled, teed, twisted, torqued, bagged, bongoed, boxed, featured, frozen, glazed, have a brass eye, have a kick in the guts, have a skinful, have a rubber drink, have a skate on, have a slant on, have a flag out, have a bun on, have a can on, have a glow on, have an edge on; half-cocked, half-crocked, half-shot, half-slewed, half-sprung, half-stewed, half-seas-over, half-under, half-shaved, half-snapped (half-drunk); hooted, hang one on, happy, heeled, dipsy, off the wagon, fallen off the wagon, horseback, in the bag, leaping, nimtopsical, over the bay, owled, plowed, snoozamorooed, sozzled, zozzled, bulletproof, buzzed, hammered, lai-out, stretched, tired, walking on rocky socks, blasted, blewed, blued, blindo, boggled, guyed out, flannel-mouth, activated, adrip, afloat, aglow, alcoholized, alight, alkied, alkied up, antifreezed, ate the dog, back teeth afloat, baptized, bashed, basted, beerified, beery, bent out of shape, bent and broken, crashed, torn, tore-up, tore down, wiped out, aced, tubed, tweased, tweeked, tweaked, toasted, discomboobulated, discomfuddled, flying one wing low, foozlified, fossilized, gaffed, galvanized, giggled, greased, grogged, groggy, guttered, had one or two, holding up the wall, honked, honkers, hosed, impaired, inpixocated, in orbit, inked, inky-poo, intoxed, irrigated, jazzed up, jiggered, jugged up, juicy, Kentucky fried, southern fried, Mexican fried, muy tostado, knee-walking drunk, knockered, laced, likkerous, liquefied, listing to starboard, little ’round the corner, loud and proud, lushed, lushed up, lushington, spliced, main brace well spliced, mashed, mizzled, noddy-headed, oiled-up, pretty far gone, ripe, ripped and wrecked, ripped to the tits, schizzed out, seeing pink elephants, sewed, shot down, sizzled, slathered, slewed, smashed out of one’s mind, snooted, squiffed, squiffy, starched, steamed, stiffed, stiffo, suffering no pain, swacko, tanked out, tight as a goat, tight as a drum, top-heavy, toxicated, trammeled, varnished, whiffled, whoozy, gassed, gassed-up, glassy, glass-eyed, glassy-eyed, had a bun on, had a skinful and a half, had one too many, marinated, maxed out, in the gutter, in one’s cups, jagged, jazzed, jazzed-up, jolly, jugged, killed, limp, lathered, liquored, liquored-up, decks awash, ding-swizzled, feel good, fired up, floating, frazzled, fuzzled, fuzzy, gay, geared-up, ginned, ginned-up, stitched, stone blind, stunned, tangle-footed, teed-up, under the table, under the weather.”
— The Wordsworth Thesaurus of Slang