Meaning of full as a tick | Babel Free

Definitions

Engorged with food or drink, especially alcoholic drink.

Examples

“Then we drank up all the beer, and threw the bottles into the water and fired at them. . . . "Stop⟳ ut!" shouted Mulvaney. "Whin you've fired into nothin' as often as me, over a better man than yoursilf, you will not make⟳ a mock av thim orders. 'Tis worse than whistlin' the Dead March⟳ in barricks. An' you full as a tick, an' the sun cool, an' all an' all!"”

“[B]etween that Dutch cattle salesman and the barkeeper and myself, it would have⟳ taken a bookkeeper to have⟳ kept a check on the drinks we consumed. . . . Well, I took a seat for a shine⟳, and for two hours I sat there as full as a tick, and as dignified as a judge⟳ on the bench.”

“Bragg describes his mother Margaret as a girl eating her first hot dog: it "came wrapped in wax paper, the bun warm and soft, the smell⟳ of raw onions, spicy meat and chili filling the car, and she rode the rest⟳ of the way full as a tick, mustard on her cheeks."”

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