crocked

crocked
adj
1.
American
drunk. A word used, e.g., by college students, in the 1980s. It proba-bly comes from the old use of 'crocks' as containers for pickling or preserving in alcohol or, particularly in Canada, as con-tainers for whiskey. Alternatively, the der-ivation may be the same as that of the following sense.
2.
American
angry. This use of the word is connected with an archaic or dialect use of 'crock' and 'crook' to mean an old, infirm, cantankerous and complaining person.
3.
British
broken or injured, used partic-ularly of sportsmen incapacitated through injury. From the standard Eng-lish sense of crock as a potsherd, or from a dialect term for a decrepit animal.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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  • crocked — adj. drunk, inebriated. Opposite of {sober}. [slang] Syn: blotto, fuddled, loaded, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • crocked — [krɔkt US kra:kt] adj [not before noun] [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: Probably from crock to weaken (19 20 centuries), from crock old or worn out animal (15 20 centuries), probably from a Scandinavian language] 1.) BrE old fashioned injured or broken …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • crocked — [ krakt ] adjective AMERICAN INFORMAL drunk …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • crocked — ☆ crocked [kräkt] adj. [pp. of crock, to disable, injure, prob. < or akin to CROCK ] Slang drunk; intoxicated …   English World dictionary

  • crocked — [krakt] mod. alcohol intoxicated. □ What do you get out of getting crocked ery night? □ Oh, my God! You’re crocked again! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • Crocked — Crock Crock, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crocked} (kr[o^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crocking}.] To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • crocked —    drunk    From drinking out of too many crocks, or from being injured by the excesses:     In New York they prefer to arrive crocked... sorry, smashed... and sober up during the interview. (B. Forbes, 1972)    Rarely, a crock is a drunkard …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • crocked — adjective (never before noun) 1 BrE old fashioned injured or broken 2 AmE spoken drunk: Don t mind Roger. He s always crocked by noon …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • crocked — adjective Date: circa 1927 drunk 1a …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • crocked — /krokt/, adj. Slang. drunk. [1925 30, Amer.; CROCK2 + ED2] * * * …   Universalium

  • crocked — adjective a) drunk (of a person) b) injured (of a person) …   Wiktionary

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