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ploughed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Turned over with the blade of a plough to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
  2. (figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
  3. (slang) Drunk.
    • they stacked the glass up + right up to the level that you would normally have if you had ice in your drink anyway + and consequently I got ploughed 1983, Gillian Brown, George Yule, Discourse Analysis:
    • "I said are you allowed to drink? You know, beer. Whatever. Isn't it against your religion?" […] There were a few kids at school who said they were Mormon, but that didn't stop 'em from getting ploughed, and other kids who went to church but smoke and drank and cussed and screwed. 2020, Tom Leveen, Party:

Forms

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plowed alternative lexicographic
most ploughed Degree=Sup lexicographic
more ploughed Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

unploughed

ploughed en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of plough
    form of plough

Forms

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plowed alternative lexicographic