Meaning of half cut | Babel Free

Definitions

Rather drunk.

Australia, Canada, Ireland, UK, informal

Equivalents

Examples

“He had the girl's head on his shoulder but she was half cut⟳ and in her seventh heaven, so he just went on talking to me, proud of his English, you see⟳.”

“Drink⟳ up thy zider, drink⟳ up thy zider, For tonight we'll merry be. We'll knock⟳ the milk churns over and roll 'em in the clover, for the corn's half cut⟳ and so be we!”

“Lucie Miller always loved Christmas back home in Blackpool. Her Mum running a still-frozen turkey under the hot tap at ten. Great-Grandma Miller half-cut on cooking sherry by eleven. Her Dad and her uncle arguing hammer⟳ and tongs about who was the best James Bond all through dinner.”

“You think⟳: "That old fella's woken up still half-cut and put⟳ on his girlfriend's shoes by mistake⟳."”

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