schicker

shicker

1. adjective, slang Drunk. From Yiddish. He spent the whole evening getting shicker, much to the displeasure of his parents. I love this holiday. You're instructed to drink enough wine to get good and shicker!
2. noun, slang A drunkard; an alcoholic. That new boyfriend of Miriam's is nothing but a shicker. He can't even hold down a job! My father was a worthless shicker the whole time we were growing up. When he finally left for good, we were all just relieved more than anything.
3. noun, slang To drink alcohol to the point of drunkenness. They were up till 3 AM shickering, and now they're all feeling sicker than dogs. He's been neglecting his studies and his religious duties, preferring to spend the weekends shickering with those no-good friends of his.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

shicker

(ˈʃɪkɚ)
1. and schicker and schickered (ˈʃɪkɚd) mod. alcohol intoxicated. (From Hebrew shiqor via Yiddish.) It took her about ten minutes to get schicker and three days to get sober.
2. n. liquor; beer. Fill it up with shicker again.
3. in. to tipple; to become alcohol intoxicated. I’m gonna go out and shicker till I’m silly.

schicker

verb
See shicker
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • sweet
  • sweeter
  • gonzo
  • preppie
  • preppy
  • bulletproof
  • SBD
  • spastic
  • psycho
  • appropriate for
References in periodicals archive
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Recognition of this is one reason for the presentation of the flag, which will be handed over by European Parliament member Johanna Schicker.
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Both social-psychological and economic (or Bayesian) conceptions of party identification acknowledge that, although always the most stable of political attitudes, partisanship is subject to change in response to short-term political conditions, including (or proxied by) the president's approval level (Fiorina 1981; Erikson, MacKuen, and Stimson 1998; Green, Palmquist, and Schicker 1998, 2002).
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