cream-crackered
adjective British informal
Extremely tired.I was out all day yesterday, and I'm pretty cream-crackered, so I may watch a film and go to bed....
- Oh, and a lot of recent peacy stuff, which I may have to ease up on; I'm just cream-crackered, frankly.
- Because I'd had a couple of drinks after the show, and also because I was ' cream crackered ', I had a driver.
Origin
1980s: rhyming slang for 'knackered'.
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