# Euphemisms for "very drunk"
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 13, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092 "2011-12-13T22:25:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/21 "2011-12-14T01:48:26Z")
Snockered
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### Author:  [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/22 "2011-12-14T02:01:20Z")
In my group we might refer to someone as being “stumble stumble crawl” drunk.
Lovingly of course.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/23 "2011-12-14T02:10:30Z")
**Pissed** is very popular here in Aus, with the extended version being, **pissed as a newt**. **Piss-heads** are people who regularly imbibe to excess.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/24 "2011-12-14T02:30:35Z")
All fuckered up.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/25 "2011-12-14T02:36:52Z")
I like the UK term legless, and from Kinky Friedman, monstered.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/26 "2011-12-14T02:48:27Z")
Sloshed
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### Author:  [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/27 "2011-12-14T02:49:31Z")
hammered
plastered
senseless
gone
flooded
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### Author:  [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/28 "2011-12-14T02:59:17Z")
> [@Zeldar](#):
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> I always liked “tore down.”
Myself, I always preferred “tore up”
[Obligatory shitty ATHF clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIY69FytprM)
“Where’s my whiskey, I’m gonna get tore up!”
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### Author:  [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/29 "2011-12-14T03:05:17Z")
Trollied is the one I hear more often than anything else.
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### Author:  [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/30 "2011-12-14T03:05:45Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#):
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> We are following in the footsteps of the [Founding Fathers](http://twentytwowords.com/2010/12/17/200-synonyms-for-drunk-from-benjamin-franklin/), by the way.
I love “haunted with evil spirits”. That may be my new go-to phrase for pissing-his-knickers drunk for a while.
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### Author:  [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/31 "2011-12-14T03:10:34Z")
From an old folk song: “blue-blind paralytic drunk”.
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### Author:  [@Jaguars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaguars)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/32 "2011-12-14T03:11:51Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#):
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> We are following in the footsteps of the [Founding Fathers](http://twentytwowords.com/2010/12/17/200-synonyms-for-drunk-from-benjamin-franklin/), by the way.
‘Seeing the Bears’ = Good night out 😃
On the Piss
Merry
Tipsy
Off-level
Horizontal
Half-cut
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### Author:  [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/33 "2011-12-14T03:30:16Z")
In a group I used to drink with long ago, when one of us was unable to form a coherent sentence, we were said to be “speaking Braille”.
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### Author:  [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/34 "2011-12-14T04:02:22Z")
And people think that seventeen words for snow is impressive.
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/35 "2011-12-14T04:53:52Z")
elevated
in the pines
schnockered
plowed
on the ropes
pickled
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/36 "2011-12-14T04:55:53Z")
Not so much a description of the result, but I’ve heard the act of drinking heavily referred to as tying one on.
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/37 "2011-12-14T05:22:52Z")
Pissed to the gills.
Knee-crawling, throwing up, falling down drunk.
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### Author:  [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/38 "2011-12-14T08:18:02Z")
Munted, in NZ.
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### Author:  [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/39 "2011-12-14T08:43:31Z")
Pissed as a fart
Steaming
Sloshed
Hammered
Paralytic
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### Author:  [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/euphemisms-for-very-drunk/606092/40 "2011-12-14T15:08:55Z")
Bombed. Pronounced “bahhhhmed.”
There’s a town about half an hour away called Lodi. We used to describe how drunk we were by how close we were to Lodi-ed.
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