One of my most popular posts (thanks, Reddit) and the best-selling item in my Etsy Store are both based on Ben Franklin’s compendium of words and phrases meaning drunk, The Drinker’s Dictionary.
Now, more than 275 years after he published it, it’s time for an update. so I’m compiling the best contemporary terms for “drunk”.
I will publish it here, and etch it into another decanter, to make a matching set with the original.
Add your favorites in the comments box below, and one randomly selected contribution that makes it into the final piece, will earn the contributor a free set of Drinker’s Dictionary Decanters.
Note: depending on submissions, I may exclude profanity from the final list. After all, we want this to be family-friendly list of terms for getting effed-up. If there are a lot of unique, profane and obscene submissions, that may just necessitate me making a third volume, in which case, one of you shit-faced shit-talkers will also get a free set.
B – Bashed, Basted, Besotted, Blitzed, Blotto, Bombed, Boozed up, Buzzed…
“Schnockered” is the word Grumps used to use!
ANOTHER ONE GRUMPS USED TO SAY: HE’S “THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND”
Ripped
Hammered
Done
Wasted
Bit
Tore
Gone
Zooched
I personally enjoy “fuschnickered”.
Example: The trouble with Tales is that I get too fuschnickered to function!
shit faced
toasty, cockeyed, four to the floor, having the whirlygigs, lit like a Christmas tree, kippered, Moulin Rouged, off yer pickle, potted, under the weather, zonked
Sloshed,plowed,trashed…….
Sloshed.
Housed, jake-legged, in need, down and out, touched, sloppy
drunkles
crunked
Trailered. My Irish friends used to say it. It means “drunk to the point of vomiting.”
my favorite have always been the pormeanteau words that form a hybrid to describe a persons state of intoxication. I think that when you discover one of these you also discover a new state of drunkenness…
slammed + hammered = slammered
sloshed + plastered = sloshtered
3sheets2theWinebriated
UndertheTabelligerent
Shit-Faced + Blitzed = Shlitzed (In Milwaukee its spelled Schlitzed but carries same meaning)
Tore, faded
sweeney
baracho
#wasteypants
Tanked.
Trashed, pissed, legless, lashed, blind, out of your tree, blasted, wasted, wastey, *poop*faced, hammered, three sheets, blitzed, blotto, annihilated, tipsy, crocked, sloshed, feeling no pain, smashed, bent, besotted, bibulous (though that’s just excessively fond of drinking, which I am; but not drunk, so it may not count, but gosh I love that word) – why are so many of these b-words? Can we use foreign languages too? I’m a big fan of borracho. 🙂
In the deep end
Piss Drunk
loaded
tanked
not dominating
sloshed
faded
bombed
Getting wierd
Huggin the Rug
Blatto
Mooshed
furred
turnt up
having a (famous drunk celeb) moment
in their zone
activate/activated
annihilated
get ignorant
tuned up
turnt up
got wet
Had an appt. with Dr. Unk
white girl wasted
balls to the wall
lit
sideways
get loose
get weird
inebriated
faded
tossed
brown out (forgetting some things, not everything when blacking out)
praying to the porcelain god (puking drunk)
wrecked