syphed up

English

Alternative forms

• siffed-up, siffed up
• syphed-up

Adjective

syphed up (comparative more syphed up, superlative most syphed up)

1. (US slang) Afflicted with syphilis; syphilitic.
   • 1960, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Clem Anderson:

     And then, I always tell myself if I get siffed up, I'll merely knock myself off, put the old gun in my mouth.

   • 1968, Charles Bukowski, letter, 20 April, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 103:

     I am the siffed-up redhead being let out of the car on the corner.

   • 1974, Joe Gores, Interface:

     She wanted to die. She was a syphed-up junkie whore, she'd have died before she was forty of malnutrition or an accidental OD […].