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cock-eyed adjective- squint-eyed UK, 1821
- drunk US, 1737
First recorded by Benjamin Franklin. - There, one night, cockeyed, he shot two inoffensive customers. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 160, 1948
- Thursday night I took a bottle up to my room with me, and I got half cockeyed. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 124, 1953
- absurd, ridiculous, topsy-turvy UK, 1896
- Film extras need three things: thick skin [...], endless patience, and cock-eyed optimism. — Guardian Unlimited, March 2002
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