Meaning of one over the eight | Babel Free

Definitions

Drunk.

colloquial

Examples

““Actually,” said the Captain, “and strictly between ourselves, mind, I was run over by a tram in Stoke-on-Trent when I was one-over-the-eight.””

“Around 11pm BB King appears onstage, much of his audience one over the eight, talkative but mellow, ready for what is (in my book at least) the experience of a lifetime.”

“To put it mildly, Brendan, you don't appear at your best on television when you've got one over the eight.”

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