wasted

wasted
adj
a.
exhausted, drained of energy
b.
intoxicated by drugs (or, occasionally, alcohol), stoned. This is an extension of the sense of to devastate or annihilate (arising in the late 1960s), on the pattern of synonymous terms such as wrecked, smashed, blitzed, etc.
c.
American
penniless, broke. A now obsolescent sense of the term, heard in the 1950s.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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