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cot case noun an incapacitated person, such as a drunk or insane person AUSTRALIA That is, “a person who should be confined to a bed.”- [S]ergeant Burke was boozing and no better than a cot case. — Leonard Mann, Flesh in Armour, p. 144, 1932
- If I don’t get a bit of shut-eye soon I’ll be a flamin’ cot-case so help me! — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 51, 1968
- I’ll be a flaming cot-case if I don’t get an amber transfusion. — The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, 1972
- [I]t’s all she can do to conjure up a measure of pity for a sorry self-deluded fucking cot case like me. — Harrison Biscuit, The Search for Savage Henry, p. 56, 1995
- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 30, 1998
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