Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Wearied by travel; exhausted by walking.

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Examples

  • And then the homeless guy giving me a drunkards tour of the Quarter, telling me that he was an old friend of Allen Ginsberg's, every few steps looking at me with way-gone eyes and saying "I'm fucked up," before ending up in Louis Armstrong Park where he would pass out with the bottle of rot gut that I bought for him secured under his arm.

    Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? 2005

  • And then the homeless guy giving me a drunkards tour of the Quarter, telling me that he was an old friend of Allen Ginsberg's, every few steps looking at me with way-gone eyes and saying "I'm fucked up," before ending up in Louis Armstrong Park where he would pass out with the bottle of rot gut that I bought for him secured under his arm.

    August 2005 2005

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