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drunk
 
NOUN:1. A drinking bout: binge, brannigan, carousal, carouse, spree. Slang : bat2, bender, booze, jag, tear1. See DRUGS, RESTRAINT. 2. A person who is habitually drunk: drunkard, inebriate, sot, tippler. Slang : boozehound, boozer, lush2, rummy1, soak, souse, sponge, stiff. See DRUGS.
ADJECTIVE:Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal : cockeyed, stewed. Slang : blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in (or to) the wind. See DRUGS.
 
 
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