loaded

loaded
adj
1a.
drunk. An Americanism in use since the turn of the 20th century, now heard elsewhere in the English-speaking world. The original metaphor may refer to a bur-den or a large quantity being imbibed or, more dramatically, to the person being charged like a firearm.
► 'Dropped into a tavern/Saw some friends of mine./ Party was gettin' under way/ And the juice was really flyin' and I got loaded.' ('I Got Loaded', song recorded by Pep-permint Harris, 1957)
1b.
intoxicated by illicit drugs. An Ameri-can term popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was this sense that inspired the title of the fourth LP by the seminal New York rock group The Velvet Underground in 1970.
2.
rich.
This term, formerly slang, is now a common colloquialism.
3.
British
in the mood for sex or sexually aroused. The term, which refers to males only, is part of the language of adoles-cents in use in the later 1990s and was included in Just Seventeen magazine's 'lingo of lurve' in August 1996.
I can tell he's loaded/feeling loaded.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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