Advertisement
Advertisement
plastered
[ plas-terd, plah-sterd ]
plastered
/ ˈplɑːstəd /
adjective
- slang.intoxicated; drunk
Word History and Origins
Origin of plastered1
Example Sentences
Biceps bulging out of a sleeveless shirt, sweaty scalp wrapped in a white bandana, plastered fingers on his left hand gripping a racquet.
This past February, the Wyoming Active Club, a white supremacist organization, plastered stickers around Campbell County in the northeast part of the state that pictured mountain forests and said, “Preserve Nature, End Immigration.”
Trump’s mugshot, glaring in a photograph taken at an Atlanta jail in August, was soon plastered on campaign t-shirts and yard signs.
She could have been hungover, plastered, tipsy — you know, any place in it.
Ohtani is, of course, a national hero in all of Japan, his image plastered over billboards, green tea advertisements and newspaper pages.
Advertisement
About This Word
What does plastered mean?
Plastered is a slang adjective that means extremely drunk.
Plastered is just one of the many slang synonyms for intoxicated, including bombed, blitzed, hammered, smashed, wasted, trashed, sloshed, and tanked.
Such words often imply that a person is drunk beyond a point of being able to function in even the most basic ways. Someone who’s described as plastered probably can’t even walk or talk properly. In many cases, a person who’s plastered is intoxicated to the point of blacking out—losing consciousness and probably losing their memory of what happened when they were intoxicated.
Example: He got so plastered that he couldn’t remember anything that happened before he woke up in his car, which he had crashed into a tree.
Where does plastered come from?
The first records of the slang use of plastered come from the early 1900s. The verb plaster means to cover something with plaster, a kind of paste that hardens when it dries. However, plaster can also be used as a slang term meaning to destroy by bombing (or, by extension, to knock down or injure, such as by hitting). Plastered meaning “drunk” may derive from this sense of the word.
Other slang terms meaning “drunk” also use imagery related to things being destroyed, including bombed, blitzed, hammered, and smashed. These terms emphasize the dramatic and harmful effects that alcohol (or other drugs) can have on the brain, resulting in things like memory loss, slurred speech, and the inability to walk without staggering or at all.
Did you know ... ?
What are some synonyms for plastered?
What are some words that share a root or word element with plastered?
What are some words that often get used in discussing plastered?
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse