• Plowed

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -aÊŠd

    Alternative forms

    Verb

    plowed
    1. plowed

      (past of plow)

    Full definition of plowed

    Adjective

    plowed

    1. Turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
    2. (figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
    3. (US, informal) Drunk.
      • 2005, Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December, Little, Brown and Company (2005), ISBN 9780316024259, unnumbered page:We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed.
      • 2005, Gary Stromberg & Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery, Hazelden (2007), ISBN 9781592851560, page 72:Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed. That was my week of being "on the wagon."
      • 2013, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, & Martha Quinn (with Gavin Edwards), VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave, Atria Books (2013), ISBN 9781451678123, page 202:I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed.

    Synonyms

    • (drunk) see also .
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