oiled en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
an oiled machine
a person's oiled body
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(slang) Drunk. Usually in conjunction with an adverb of degree.
You could tell he wasn’t tired at all, though. He was pretty oiled up, for one thing.
1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 245:It appeared that, being in his own words still considerably "oiled" on his arrival, Bowles's parson had received him into his house with strong disfavour, and, what was worse, put him through a species of inquisition regarding the condition of his soul that had, to again quote Cripps, "nearly sent him mad."
1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 149:"Say, was he oiled when the accident happened?" "No, he was on the wagon again. …"
1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 14, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:I got well oiled last night.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most oiled | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more oiled | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
oiled silk · well-oiled · well-oiled machine · nonoiled · unoiled
Hypernyms
lubricated[contextually]] hypernymous>
Relateds
Synonyms
inebriated · flush · potshot · binned · gattered · quisby · half polluted · in the drink · elevated · ebriated · hooted · rubbered · tired and emotional · blind drunk · mortal · besotten · kettled · gassed · lubed · bungalowed · legless · dead drunk · temulent · wrecked · spanceled · shedded · insobrietous · bosky · elephant's trunk · shickered · sozzly · Mozart and Liszt · budgy · befuddled · half lit · langered · inter pocula · fuckered up · bottled · slammed · munted · larruped · steamboats · inebrious · hazed · on the ran tan · liquory · gee-eyed · fried · souped-up · stotious · lamped · lubed · lubricated · wastey · sotted · bibulous · zonked · burlin' · adrip · flushed · whittled · zoned · all mops and brooms · lash · lushed · spannered · cockeyed · sprung · worse for wear · tight as a tick · arseholed · sauced up · bedrunken · oiled up · snockered · frosted · groggy · obfuscated · honkers · toasted · sewed up · bungfu · pie-eyed · blasted · lubed up · wazzocked · muddled · twisted · overrefreshed · wobbly · ginned · soshed · well-oiled · Brahms · shellacked · blottoed · mashed · a sheet in the wind's eye · kaylied · ratfaced · oiled · clobbered · oily · disguised · stoned · mullered · crocked · high as a kite · drunken · strut · pixilated · zooted · destroyed · loopy · oleose · inebriate · blue · three sheets to the wind · blewed · cup-shot · fluted · out of sight · maudlin · in one's cups · tippled · Adrian Quist · maggot · fluthered · how came you so · sloppy drunk · parlatic · insober · overcome · schnockered · drunk as a piper · fresh · muggy · flooey · spiffed · blocked · ploughed · stonkered · ossified · withered · fap · overtaken · wet · nimptopsical · top-heavy with drink · polluted · wellied · Oliver · off one's head · razzled · hosed · bladdered · in liquor · out of it · high · maggoted · have drink taken · paralytic · puggled · trashed · fuzzy-minded · crapulous · stewed · juiced · muzzy · in the bag · blootered · zorched · beliquored · elephant's · ripped · plastered · lathered · zotzed · medicated · fou · screwed · off one's box · stinking · messed up · mortalled · mabok · sottish · snookered · boozy · lit · fuckfaced · lashed · besotted · kisky · tight · primed · throwed · faced · loaded · obliviated · snozzled · out of one's face · newted · half seas over · spongy · half cut · gished · wazzed · out of one's box · jaked · ebriose · sozzled · high as a Georgia pine · stoated · feeling no pain · gesuip · slarmied · corned · Brahms and Liszt · sodden · jarred · fuddled · loose · hammered · groggified · soused · off one's tits · sauced · sloshed · fuzzy-headed · oiled up · nappy · top-heavy · slizzard · aled up · plowed · have the sun in one's eyes · stinko · hoovered · Oliver Twist · full · cocked · worse for liquor · blitzed · potted · scammered · swacked · drunked up · glorious · bollocksed · pounded · a sheet in the wind · tanked up · schloshed · ripe · cut · blind · shicker · out of one's head · MWI · tanked · monged · tuned · lubed up · bingoed · tipsy · flustered · shitty · cup-shotten · three sheets in the wind · bevvied · mad with it · langers · smashed · bibacious · toping · rolling · four sheets in the wind · looped · cunted · temulentive · soaken · in one's altitudes · squiffed · drunk · scuttered · snuffy · impaired · hog-whimpering · woozy · twatfaced · juiced up · pickled · canned · splashed · fershnickered · hooched up · raddled · tilted · floored · liquored up · bombed · lubricated · skunked