variants or less commonly coked
informal
: high on cocaine
Depending on whom you listen to, he was either too lazy, too broke or too coked-up to go out on assignment …Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, 2 June 2003
Two men, two friends, enter a place of business, both—to use the vernacular—coked to the gills.Lucius Shepard, Playboy, September 1986

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of coked-up was in 1924

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“Coked-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coked-up. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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