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wobbly boots en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (plural, plural-only) A state of intoxication such that one cannot walk steadily.
    • She'd be unsteady on her feet or, to put it Gayle's way, wearing wobbly boots. 2002, Beverley Harper, Jackal's Dance:
    • I smiled back for him, thought about you, wondered what kind of night you were having, whether you had your wobbly boots on yet. 2000, Nigel Featherstone, Joy, page 156:
    • A father and his two big sons had put their “wobbly boots” on after drinking hard in the pub round the corner. 2011, Robin Barratt, The Mammoth Book of Hard Bastards:
  2. (plural, plural-only) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wobbly, boots.