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overboard
adjective
drunk US- At about nine o’clock, half overboard, Legs said he was going to the washroom. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 162, 1948
▶ go overboard- to be over-enthusiastic about something, to exaggerate US, 1931
- It’s probably going overboard to say that all men fear impotence. — Bob Berkowitz, What Men Won’t Tell You but Women Need to Know, p. 122, 1990
- to refuse or fail to pay a gambling debt US
- — Dan Parker, The ABC of Horse Racing, p. 146, 1947
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