pickled

pickled

adj

Definition of PICKLED

1

: preserved in or cured with pickle <pickled herring>

2

: drunk 1a <gets thoroughly pickled before dinner — New Yorker>

Examples of PICKLED

1. He got pickled at the office party.
2. <I must have been rather pickled when I agreed to your stupid scheme.>

First Known Use of PICKLED

circa 1552

Related to PICKLED

Synonyms: besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], drunk, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]

Antonyms: sober, straight

Related Words: maudlin; beery; befuddled, bleary-eyed, crapulous, dopey (also dopy), rocky, strung out, stupefied; debauched, dissipated, dissolute; alcoholic, bibulous, dipsomaniacal

Near Antonyms: abstemious, abstinent, dry, temperate, teetotal; clearheaded, cool, level, steady

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Other Alcoholic Beverage Terms

finish, gimlet, mull, sake, setup, sommelier, syllabub, vintner, wassail