Paralytic
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˌpærəˈlɪtɪk/Rhymes: -ɪtɪk
Alternative forms
- paralytick obsolete
Origin
From Ancient Greek παÏαλυτικός (paralytikos, "paralyzed").
Adjective
paralytic
- Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
- Priorthe cold, shaking, paralytic hand
- Pertaining to paralysis.
- (UK, Australia, Irish) Very drunk.
- 1996, August 18, Ben McCulloch, Para-olympics, Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again?
ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics. - 1999, January 3, David McLoughlin, Gundagai - Last Use Of Line?, I'm amazed I survived so much drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least it was an automatic.
- 2001, May 24, Peter Ryan, ablett no from hall of fame, He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient.
- 2002, April 16, C e r b e r u s - T h e D o g O f H e l l, On the Isle of Man., On returning to his friends at the bar he remarked " there's a fellow in the jaxx and he's just paralytic. He must be heading for the boat and didn't quite make it."