wobbly boots

English

Noun

wobbly boots pl (plural only)

1. A state of intoxication such that one cannot walk steadily.
   • 2000, Nigel Featherstone, Joy, page 156:

     I smiled back for him, thought about you, wondered what kind of night you were having, whether you had your wobbly boots on yet.

   • 2002, Beverley Harper, Jackal's Dance:

     She'd be unsteady on her feet or, to put it Gayle's way, wearing wobbly boots.

   • 2011, Robin Barratt, The Mammoth Book of Hard Bastards:

     A father and his two big sons had put their “wobbly boots” on after drinking hard in the pub round the corner.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wobbly,‎ boots.

Usage notes

Usually used in phrases such as "wearing wobbly boots" or "putting on wobbly boots".