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boozed; boozed up adjective drunk US, 1737 First recorded by amateur slang lexicographer Benjamin Franklin in 1737; obsolete, perhaps, but not forgotten.- I know you’ve been cutting down, but you can’t be boozed up or have a hangover on this job. — Jim Thompson, After Dark, My Sweet, p. 42, 1955
- It’s kind of hard to tell with him–he acts boozed up sometimes even when he’s sober. — S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, p. 27, 1967
- If she’s snuffed it I’ll never forgive that boozed old bastard. — Barry Humphries, The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, p. 34, 1968
- At that same moment, in the bedroom of Erica’s flat, boozed Baptiste has the problem of dressing for a grocery shopping trip with Erica. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 102, 1978
- I was getting a young piece boozed in an old pub over in South Townsville, preparatory to taking her home to my flat for a bit of nonsense. — Bettina Arndt, The Australian Way of Sex, p. 38, 1985
- “You know in While the City Sleeps, he was so boozed up they had to write it into the character.” — John Ridley, Love is a Racket, p. 60, 1998
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