zonkedhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zonked_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezonked, adj.
First published 1986; not fully revised

zonkedadjective

slang. Chiefly in predicative use.
  1. 1.
    1959–
    Intoxicated by drugs or alcohol; ‘stoned’. Frequently const. out. Also transferred and figurative.
    1. 1959
      Zonked, one who is stoned, high, drunk.
      Esquire November 70j
    2. 1967
      Most of the drivers one meets should not be allowed to take charge of a car when sober—let alone when three parts zonked.
      New Scientist 19 October 185/1
    3. 1967
      If only Mr Green weren't Jewish, he could swing around the world on the magic carpet completely zonked out.
      P. Welles, Babyhip iv. 53
    4. 1968
      Everybody..had taken acid and they were zonked.
      T. Wolfe, Electric Kool-aid Acid Test vi. 70
    5. 1972
      We sat..drinking arak and wine, and then beer, and we all got pretty zonked.
      J. Wambaugh, Blue Knight (1973) xiv. 246
    6. 1973
      I'm serious. Zonked about her. Way out.
      H. Nielsen, Severed Key x. 107
    7. 1975
      Susan begins an affair with a zonked-out type who calls himself Commander Cloud.
      Publishers Weekly 20 January 78/1
    8. 1977
      Thousands of young people squeezed themselves into Radio City Music Hall to enjoy, scream at, get zonked to Jethro Tull.
      Rolling Stone 24 March 84/1
    9. 1979
      A..Caucasian woman obviously zonked out..and a tracery of leaves resembling cannabis.
      Daily Telegraph April 21/5
  2. 2.
    1972–
    Exhausted, tired out.
    1. 1972
      This portrait of his wife..zonked out on a floating sofa.
      Maclean's October 40/1
    2. 1976
      You just collapsed and..pulled the covers up around your head... You were completely zonked.
      J. Farris, Fury i. 10
    3. 1978
      Patricia Wells, three hours after providing the high point of 2,300 people's evenings, was ‘zonked’ and went back to her hotel to bed.
      Washington Post 19 March (Magazine section) 42/2
    4. 1980
      ‘Fairly zonked’ by his non-stop 17 weeks of filming, he is recharging himself for the next stage.
      Daily Telegraph 28 July 8/6

zonked, adj. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

zonked, adj. was last modified in December 2024.