(a.) Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; -- never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk (not, a drunk man).
(a.) Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
(n.) A drunken condition; a spree.
Example Sentences:
(1) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
(2) The major part of water was drunk during feeding time.
(3) The leadership of 212 chapters of an organization called Mothers Against Drunk Driving was surveyed to obtain data on chapter emphasis, satisfaction, future involvement and perception of most effective countermeasures.
(4) We hope that the court of appeal in reaching its judgment understands that consent cannot happen when a woman is too drunk to consent.
(5) Big Red football parties had a reputation for being wildly drunk.
(6) "I would stand there and watch him every night, unless I was too drunk that I couldn't stand.
(7) A DWI conviction may also stimulate the drunk driver to seek treatment for alcoholism.
(8) Alcohol campaigns largely target younger women, yet the risk of breast cancer – which peaks in the 60-64 age group – increases by about 7% for every unit drunk per day.
(9) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
(10) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
(11) There is a half-drunk glass of white wine abandoned on the coffee table at his Queensferry home - the Browns had friends around for dinner the previous night - and a stack of children's books and board games piled lopsidedly under a Christmas tree now shedding needles with abandon.
(12) No one would deny that Thomas drank too much or that he could be a troublesome drunk.
(13) Thirty-one males (17%) and 18 females (9%) reported getting drunk at least twice a month and having five or more drinks on each drinking occasion.
(14) Student days and getting drunk, our worst dates, how close we are to our parents, sausages, setting up Lindy Hop dance classes for gay people.
(15) "But I've never been drunk in my life," she says, to clarify).
(16) But Micheline Mwendike, 29, likened the concert to getting drunk to escape problems.
(17) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
(18) "When beer is cheaper than water, it's just too easy for people to get drunk on cheap alcohol at home before they even set foot in the pub," the PM wrote in the foreword.
(19) Only recall of wine, the least frequently drunk beverage, was more highly correlated with current than with original consumption.
(20) Blood glucose remained unchanged during and after exercise when E was drunk.
Tipsy
Definition:
(superl.) Being under the influence of strong drink; rendered weak or foolish by liquor, but not absolutely or completely drunk; fuddled; intoxicated.
(superl.) Staggering, as if from intoxication; reeling.
Example Sentences:
(1) P51 The Independent Farage to be grilled by tipsy Gogglebox couple.
(2) This week, rebels burst into a slot machine parlour shortly after curfew and beat up the tipsy patrons, he said.
(3) Seventeen novella-like chapters fictionalise the key phases of Ballard's life from 1937 to 1987, starting with his childhood in Shanghai where the rich, perpetually tipsy westerners play tennis, go shopping and sidestep the growing mound of refugee bodies felled by hunger, typhus and bombs.
(4) Likewise the spaceships, the weapons, the sliding titles, the masks, the wheezing and all those intergalactic beasties, as if someone drew a hippo while tipsy.
(5) Its website is fronted by the flatly strange line " A recovery made by the many and built to last " – which rather suggests a tipsy adviser messing about with a magnetic poetry kit.
(6) Grab a drink from the bar (the table service is historically slow, and it's not really that charming) and head out to the deck, where you can play a few games of tipsy ping pong before the show starts.
(7) At the time of blood sampling, the men were asked to estimate their feelings of intoxication according to an arbitrary scale on which the score 10 indicated 'tipsy' or a 'little high'.
(8) She is shown sprawled, as if drowsy or tipsy, on a sofa and the couple are separated by the ominously black cavern of a doorway.
(9) It was shortly after 11pm and the new mother, who was on her first night out since giving birth, was feeling a little tipsy.
(10) When we were at the station, the police officer said: ‘I’ve never seen anyone blow that and be as normal as you.’ I said: ‘I really don’t feel drunk at all, not even tipsy’, so I was really shocked at the reading.
(11) Postings on social media sites remembering one deceased gang member who was a friend of Abedi’s show his photograph with the words: “If I die will the mandem [slang for gang] miss me, would they ride, talk about me when they tipsy, I can’t lie it feels like death wants to take me.” In south Manchester, a man of Libyan origin who knows Abedi’s family, said the absence of his father must have had an impact.
(12) Jess Phillips’ was probably the best , because it read like she wrote it on the notes app when tipsy and that it was directed at a former lover.
(13) It's an unfussy tart; one that's none the worse for being rustled up late at night when slightly tipsy.
(14) I’ll definitely be voting for a free Scotland,” confirms the tipsy traveller as the train reaches Stirling, scene of Robert the Bruce’s underdog victory over Edward II’s army at Bannockburn in 1314.
(15) Other cover stars, one for each category, are ballerina Misty Copeland (pioneer), actor Bradley Cooper (artist), Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos (leader) and the occasionally tipsy supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (icon).
(16) And with one tipsy slip, she falls out the window .
(17) Facing each other across a quayside street are the fun and frisky Dice Bar , where I’ve spent many a tipsy Friday night, and the agreeably diveish Frank Ryan’s .
(18) A ‘tipsy’ Gove has launched an extraordinary wine-fuelled attack on Boris Johnson, saying he ‘has no gravitas and is unfit to lead the nation’,” is how the Mail on Sunday reported it.
(19) The winner came in the 111th minute courtesy of Jesse Lingard’s equivalent of Lee Martin’s famous goal when these sides met at the old Wembley 26 years earlier and Alan Pardew might come to regret his touchline dance when Puncheon volleyed past David de Gea and Palace’s manager showed the moves of a tipsy uncle at a wedding.