Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Treated or covered with oil.
  • adjective Slang Intoxicated; drunk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.
  • adjective slang Drunk; inebriated.
  • adjective silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.
  • adjective [slang] very drink.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past and past participle of oil.
  • adjective Of a machine, supplied with oil so as to allow smooth operation.
  • adjective slang drunk. Usually in conjunction with well.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective treated with oil

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Examples

  • The naked blade sat on the ground instead of in oiled leathers.

    A LIFE UNDONE • by Robert J. Santa 2009

  • And inside, wrapped in oiled silk, yellowed with age and worn and thumbed, was the original scrap of newspaper containing the quotation from Thoreau.

    The Night-Born 2010

  • Solomons and New Guinea who carried their god about them, wrapped in oiled paper.

    Chun Ah Chun 2010

  • I imagined my pedicured feet, with their rough skin oiled and massaged to a comforting softness.

    Cancun To Oaxaca - The Bus Ride Of 27 Pedicures 2007

  • I imagined my pedicured feet, with their rough skin oiled and massaged to a comforting softness.

    Cancun To Oaxaca - The Bus Ride Of 27 Pedicures 2007

  • And inside, wrapped in oiled silk, yellowed with age and worn and thumbed, was the original scrap of newspaper containing the quotation from Thoreau.

    The Night Born 1913

  • Solomons and New Guinea who carried their god about them, wrapped in oiled paper.

    Chun Ah Chun 1912

  • And inside, wrapped in oiled silk, yellowed with age and worn and thumbed, was the original scrap of newspaper containing the quotation from Thoreau.

    The Night-Born 1911

  • Only on one point there is universal agreement, let the machine be working either in the right direction or the wrong -- so long as it is working it must be oiled, that is a necessity of machine-life, so to speak -- the man or convict must be _fed_.

    Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous

  • They hold an edge a lot longer, and though the metal rusts if not oiled, that is the only drawback and is an infinitely tiny one at that.

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