quartzed
quartzed
Of a timepiece, having undergone a quartz conversion in which the clock's interior mechanisms are replaced with an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal so as to keep time more accurately. I wish I hadn't gotten my grandfather's old pocket watch quartzed—it was a pain having to wind it all the time, but I loved the sound of its ticking.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
quartzed
mod. alcohol intoxicated. (Related to stoned (out).) How can anybody get so quartzed on a bottle of wine?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- keep good time
- trans
- transgender
- bust (one's) agates
- transform
- transform into (someone or something)
- transform to
- squig out
- deathbed
- deathbed conversion