half-shaved

half-shaved

obsolete slang Mildly drunk. I suspected that my lawyer was half-shaved as he went over the case notes before the trial. I'm afraid alcohol does not agree with me at all. Just half a glass of sherry leaves me half-shaved!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

shaved

mod. alcohol intoxicated. So what if I’m a bit shaved? I shtill have all my shenses.
See also: shave
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • shaved
  • juice
  • juiced
  • blimp
  • blimp out
  • gun
  • guns
  • gargle
  • dook
  • dukes
References in periodicals archive
Or a giant melon seed, half-shaved with a steel wire, one nervous fiber beveled on the right.
The tracks are "Cindy" (3:49), "Cumberland Gap" (3:18), "Ida Red" (2:53), "Red Rocking Chair" (4:39), "Flop Eared Mule" (2:59), "No Sleep" (4:25), "Don't It Get Trouble In Your Mind" (3:34), "Half-Shaved" (2:23), "Driving Away the Blues" (3:26), "Jim Along" (2:09), "The Train That Carried My Girl From Town" (5:28), and "Let Me Fall" (2:43).
Dressed in a hoody and jogging bottoms with half-dyed half-shaved hair, Gallon spoke to conrm her name and address.
Osbourne added that her half-shaved look may be just the beginning, as she is looking at it and thinking it needs to be more, it needs to go further back and needs to be shorter.
I left eighth grade looking like Alice in Wondt derland and came back with half-shaved hair.
I had to go to the hospital and obviously they needed to get to the wound, meaning I had to take off my trousers and reveal my half-shaved leg.
During that campaign I had my head half-shaved for three weeks then fully-shaved.
For the first years of my childhood I spent months at a time in Selly Oak Hospital, wearing my bandages like a turban covering my half-shaved head, while we amused ourselves as best we could in the austere war-time wards, where there were no toys, no tuition for school-aged children and we saw our families only twice a week for an hour: Wednesday 2 - 3pm and Sunday 2 - 3pm.
"At the moment he has his head half-shaved and dyed pink for breast cancer."
There may be no aspect of modern life that eventually won't be sat on by the professionally ungainly Ferrell, who has wrapped his half-shaved bear of a self around Christmas ("Elf"), TV news ("Anchorman") and NASCAR ("Talladega Nights") over the last few years.
Sporting a half-shaved scalp, the tattooed 20-year-old continues: "Before she left for London I told her not to work too hard and rest a lot.
For its possible origin, see the society headpieces worn in Bodmer's 'Mandan Half-Shaved Head Dance." The two pieces are identified as Cheyenne or Teton Dakota type; 1850-70.
SO who looked the bigger poseur in the facial fuzz stakes - Billy Connolly in his green beard or David Beckham, above, with his half-shaved eyebrow?
A ground made of decades-old sputum Gifted carelessly from half-shaved,
A former Test selector, Hughes said that he would like to see the current Australian batch with moustaches, beards, goatees, half-beards and half-shaved heads, adding that the style of sporting facial hair should be brought back to the game.