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Adjective: soused  sawst
  1. [informal] Very drunk
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk [informal], blotto [informal], crocked [N. Amer, informal], cockeyed [informal], fuddled [informal], loaded [N. Amer, informal], pie-eyed [informal], pissed [Brit, informal], pixilated [informal], plastered [informal], sloshed [informal], smashed [informal], soaked [informal], sozzled [informal], stiff [informal], tight [informal], wet [informal], lit up [slang], trolleyed [Brit, informal], mullered [Brit, informal], legless [Brit, informal], trollied [Brit, informal], bladdered [Brit, informal], screwed [informal], paralytic [Brit], stonkered [Austral, NZ, informal], fried [N. Amer, informal], swacked [N. Amer, informal], stinko [informal], hammered [informal], trashed [informal], pickled [informal], wasted [informal], stewed [informal], liquored up [N. Amer], tanked up [informal], steaming [informal], juiced [N. Amer, informal], out of it [Brit, informal], blitzed [informal], three sheets to the wind [informal], blootered [UK, dialect], bombed [informal], off one's face [Brit, informal], wrecked [Brit, informal], bevvied [Brit, informal], drunk, pixillated, half-seas-over [Brit, informal]
     
  2. (of fish) preserved in pickle
    "soused herring"
Verb: souse  saws
  1. Cover with liquid; pour liquid onto
    "souse water on his hot face";
    - drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop
     
  2. Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
    "souse the garment into the cleaning solution";
    - dunk, dip, plunge, douse
     
  3. Become drunk or drink excessively
    - soak, inebriate, hit it up
     
  4. (cooking) cook in a marinade
    "souse herring"

See also: drunk, gone, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal]

Type of: booze [informal], cook, drink, fuddle, hit the bottle [informal], immerse, plunge, wet

Encyclopedia: Soused

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