Drunk

Pronunciation

• enPR: drÅ­ngk, IPA: /drʌŋk/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋk

Full definition of drunk

Adjective

1. In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
2. (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
• Macaulaydrunk with recent prosperity
3. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
• Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

Synonyms

• (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see also

Derived terms

Noun

1. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
• 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
2. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
• 1858, "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times, 8 Jun., p. 4:Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
3. A drunken state.
• 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

Derived terms

• cheap drunk
• expensive drunk
• good drunk

Synonyms

• (habitual drinker) alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also

Verb

1. Past participle of drink
2. (Southern US)

   drunk

   (simple past of drink)