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be strung outinformal 1Be nervous or tense: I often felt strung out by daily stresses...- Of this ‘boyfriend’ group, there is a sub-group that is doubly nervous and strung out!
- Lizzie is the epitome of a Type-A personality - ambitious, motivated, uptight, and strung out.
- This week Monkey Boy and Andrew G Spot are almost entirely unremarkable in appearance, except that Monkey Boy seems to be having difficulties blinking and looks really strung out.
1.1North American Be under the influence of alcohol or drugs: he died, strung out on booze...- My brother got out of the army in Germany and came back strung out on opiates, and that's when it began for me.
- Some girls were so strung out on drugs they didn't know what they were doing.
- How many kids have they left behind, dead and strung out, him and his brother?
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