Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past participle of drink.
- adj. Intoxicated with alcoholic liquor to the point of impairment of physical and mental faculties.
- adj. Caused or influenced by intoxication.
- adj. Overcome by strong feeling or emotion: drunk with power.
- n. A drunkard.
- n. A bout of drinking.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The regular past participle and a former preterit of drink.
- Intoxicated; inebriated; overcome, stupefied, or frenzied by alcoholic liquor: used chiefly in the predicate.
- Drenched or saturated.
- n. A spree; a drinking-bout.
- n. A case of drunkenness; a drunken person.
- Bent; crooked: used to describe a bent screw which imparts a sidewise as well as an endwise motion to a nut.
Wiktionary
- adj. In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- adj. Elated or emboldened.
- n. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
- n. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
- n. A drunken state.
- v. Past participle of drink
- v. southern US Simple past of drink.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used
attributively , but alwayspredicatively . - adj. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- n. Slang A drunken condition; a spree.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a chronic drinker
- adj. as if under the influence of alcohol
- adj. stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
- n. someone who is intoxicated
Examples
“The party was fun (lots of pretty people, free booze, good waitress, surprisingly racially mixed attendees**), but by 11: 30 I was drunk and DG was fall down drunk***, so it was time to go.”
“On the train back to Brooklyn, a drunk is asleep in the seat for two at one end.”
“If people tweet the word "beer," there's a seven-hour lag, on average, before there's a spike in the word "drunk.”
“Chesterfield County police say an 18-year old man has died as the result of the injuries he received after what they call a drunk-driving crash.”
“Rolling out of a pub drunk and swearing because you are drunk is not the same as fighting 10 drunks in the street with a small stick, a can of food additive and the backup of 2 officers.”
“/His voice is stillness, moss and rain/drunk from the forest ages long.”
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“He was so freakin 'drunk, he could barely stand up.”
“Getting drunk is pleasurable - for many, the most pleasurable thing they could do in a given period of time.”
Reduction to Banality, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Everyone, sober or drunk, is seeking a beloved, everywhere, mosque or synagogue, is the house of love.”
The Huffington Post: William C. Chittick, Ph.D.: Islam: A Religion Of Love
“Well, it was fun for us … mebbe we were still drunk from the wedding reception, mebbe we were just too tired to know any better but we had fun seeing Splice.”
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Scary ‘Splice’
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drunk’.
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bbc uk china vocab.
conservationists, estimate, threats, infertility, eating away at, endangered, furry, panel, in trouble, gongs, triumphed, caps and 1007 more...
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Contemporary character classes?
as a youth I, and some others, made a pen-and-paper RPG, based in contemporary crime and suspense fiction + nonfiction, set in America's blighted urban centers, anonymous slurbs, and godforsaken hi...
acrobat, actor, anarchist, arsonist, artist, bagman, accountant, adrenaline junkie, airplane pilot, anti-racist skinhead, art student, assassin and 192 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Blootered
Slang words for people who are drunk
rat-arsed, merry, mortal, out of your tree, pissed, plastered, legless, ratted, soused, drunk, inebriated
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A _____ walks into a bar...
horse, bear, termite, grasshopper, panda, cowboy, guy with a chunk ..., duck, talking dog, guy with a toad o..., guy, blind man and 74 more...
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people (bad)
nouns for bad people / words that describe bad people.
goto the good people list
( people, character, descriptor, noun )culprit, perpetrator, tormentor, swindler, bamboozler, nincompoop, thief, liar, back stabber, vandal, burglar, cheater and 85 more...
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unk knowns
bunk, chipmunk, junkyard, funk, junket, crunk, chunk, kerplunk, hunk, preshrunk, spunk, countersunk and 53 more...
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Be drivers
pile driver, chicane, truck driver, carpool driver, system software d..., Tampopo, telltale, stirling moss, selfish gene, rubberneck, mint, slalom and 9 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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candy cane heroin
sex, sexual, branden, rozz, candy cane, candy canes, cotton candy, may day, may, taurus, heroin, love and 134 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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in one hour
what you can get nowadays in about an hour
one hour martinizing, prescription glasses, drunk, orgasm, sixty minutes, lunch, a few seconds
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Cage
cage, depart, nothing, void, strain, unconscious, never, alone, floor, God, hell, winter and 219 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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suzyg's Words
brandish, recompence, shopping, dichotomy, paradigm, reverse osmosis, anyway, despite, drunk, degenerate, insipid, grateful and 438 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for drunk.
myth you're as drunk as an owl! - the man who was thursday
Though weird as it is. You can also be as drunk as a boiled owl and lots more. May 10, 2009
lea You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it—it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.
But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking. . .ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: "It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish."
Charles Baudelaire Mar 5, 2009
chained_bear "Now before anyone lectures me about advising under the influence, please note that writing an advice column is a lot like bowling: Not only can you do it drunk, you're probably better at it drunk. My good friend Miss Manners won't even look at her mail until she's ripped to the tits."
—Dan Savage, "Savage Love," August 17, 2006 Aug 6, 2008
yarb Jailed for being drunk,
but far from contrite...
- Peter Reading, After Sanraku Koshu, from Diplopic, 1983 Jun 30, 2008
chained_bear Jane: "I will not be a drunk where he's buried, and I cannot stay sober." Feb 4, 2007