drunk
/drʌŋk
/verb
past participle of drink.
adjective [predicative]
1Affected by alcohol to the extent of losing control of one’s faculties or behaviour: he was so drunk he lurched from wall to wall she was drunk on vodka...
- What better opportunity are you going to get to show off your moves on stage for a room full of drunk strangers?
- Sometimes, in this industry, crazy drunk people call you at work for no apparent reason.
- There were reports of car surfing, vandalism and a high number of drunk teenagers.
Synonyms
intoxicated, inebriated, drunken, befuddled, incapable, tipsy, the worse for drink, under the influence, maudlin;
blind drunk, dead drunk, rolling drunk, roaring drunk, (as) drunk as a lord, (as) drunk as a skunk;
sottish, tippling, toping, gin-soaked
informal tight, merry, the worse for wear, woozy, pie-eyed, two/three sheets to the wind, under the table, plastered, smashed, wrecked, sloshed, soused, well oiled, sozzled, blotto, blitzed, canned, stewed, pickled, tanked (up), soaked, bombed, hammered, blasted, off one's face, out of/off one's head, out of one's skull, wasted, wired, in one's cups, reeling, cock-eyed, zonked, guttered, fuddled, stinko, ratted
British informal legless, steaming, bevvied, paralytic, Brahms and Liszt, half cut, out of it, having had a skinful, bladdered, trolleyed, well away, squiffy, tiddly, out of one's box, having had one over the eight, cut, steamed, mullered, slaughtered, lashed
British vulgar slang pissed, as pissed as a newt/fart, rat-arsed, arseholed
Scottish informal fou
North American informal loaded, trashed, crock, juiced, sauced, squiffed, swacked, strung out, liquored up, out of one's gourd, in the bag, zoned, blitzed, ripped
Scottish & Australian informal full
North American & Australian/New Zealand informal shickered, shot
Australian/New Zealand informal grogged up, as full as a goog, inked
New Zealand informal munted
South African informal lekker
euphemistic tired and emotional
informal, dated stoned, lit up, as tight as a tick
British informal, dated half seas over, pixilated
British informal, offensive monged, monged out
archaic sotted, besotted, foxed, screwed
rare crapulent, crapulous, inebriate, bibulous, ebrious, ebriose, ebriate
1.1 (drunk with) Overcome with (a strong emotion): the crowd was high on euphoria and drunk with patriotism...
- They act like radicals drunk with power, doing what ever it takes to destroy any opposing political force that dares to challenge it.
- Floral tributes perfume the cool morning air and the atmosphere is drunk with sweetness.
- He was filled with euphoria for this moment, drunk with passion.
noun
1A person who is drunk or who habitually drinks to excess: we staggered up the path like a couple of drunks...
- The crowd is even bigger than when he went in because of a couple of drunks who have taken up residence on a bench nearby.
- It probably would have been better if I had been drunk; they say drunks fall off all sorts of things and are fine, because they're floppy.
- The headache usually begins half an hour after drinking, and drunks can have very serious headaches.
Synonyms
drunkard, inebriate, drinker, imbiber, tippler, sot;
heavy drinker, hard drinker, serious drinker, problem drinker;
alcoholic, dipsomaniac, chronic alcoholic, alcohol abuser, alcohol addict, person with a drink problem
informal boozer, soak, lush, wino, alky, sponge, elbow-bender, barfly, tosspot
US informal juicehead
Australian/New Zealand informal hophead, metho
archaic toper
vulgar slang pisshead, piss artist
1.1 informal A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness: he used to go on these blind drunks
Phrases
drunk and disorderly
(as) drunk as a lord (or skunk)