drunk

1. 1

   Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

   • "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"
2. 2

   Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.derogatory

3. 3

   Elated or emboldened.usually

   • Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
4. 4

   Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

   • I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

syn. Adrian Quist · adrip · aled up · all mops and brooms · arseholed · a sheet in the wind · a sheet in the wind's eye · bedrunken · befuddled · beliquored · besotted · besotten

ant. abstemious · clean · clearheaded · on the wagon · sober · sober as a judge · teetotal

1. 1

   While drunk.

   • He was arrested for driving drunk.

1. 1

   One who is intoxicated with alcohol.

   • She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.
2. 2

   A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

   • Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
3. 3

   A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.

   • He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.
4. 4

   A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.

   • Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
   • I wisht somebody would take me off on a drunk. I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…].
5. 5

   A drunken state.

   • Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

1. 1

   past participle of drinkform-ofparticiplepast

2. 2

   simple past of drinkSouthern-USform-ofpast