maxed out

max out

1. To reach or cause to reach a limit or threshold after which no further achievement, potential, progress, etc. is possible. I made the terrible mistake of maxing out my credit cards to get the business up and running. I'm good at crossword puzzles but that one is where I max out.
2. slang To relax; to chill. I'm not busy, just maxing out. Want to come over and chill?
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

maxed out

 
1. Sl. exhausted; tired. lam just maxed out. I haven't been getting enough sleep. I had to stop work because I was too maxed out.
2. Sl. intoxicated. Sam was maxed out and seemed happy enough to sit under the table and whimper. I hadn't seen Barlowe so maxed out in years. He was nearly paralyzed.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

maxed out

1. mod. exhausted; tired. I am just maxed out. I haven’t been getting enough sleep.
2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. I hadn’t seen Marlowe so maxed out in years. He was nearly paralyzed.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • max out
  • be miles apart
  • reach
  • reach (one) (something)
  • swim for
  • swim for (someone or something)
  • leg up
  • leg up, a
  • a leg up
  • claw (one's) way (somewhere)
References in periodicals archive
However, she has a dark secret - she is a shopaholic, hopeless with money and has maxed out all of her credit cards.
Los Angeles, CA, July 16, 2010 --(PR.com)-- Now that financial reform has passed the United States Senate, James Scurlock, writer/director of the 2007 award-winning book and documentary on debt "Maxed Out" that predicted the implosion of the financial industry, is calling on President Obama to nominate one of Maxed Out's stars-Harvard Law School Professor and TARP overseer Elizabeth Warren-as head of the new consumer financial protection regulator.
I think I maxed out at maybe store cost for a board