zonked

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From zonk +‎ -ed.

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zonked (comparative more zonked, superlative most zonked)

  1. (slang) Extremely fatigued.
    After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.
  2. (slang) Deeply asleep.
    I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.
  3. (slang) Drunk; intoxicated.
    • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 225:
      The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs.
    • 1974 July, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 27:
      [] swingers in the audience were getting zonked on beer and fresh sea breezes and sound []
    • 2004, Ed Sanders, Tales of beatnik glory:
      [] playing eight-ball while zonked, chugging beer with locals []

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