Meaning

1 senses

  1. (Australia, UK, colloquial, not comparable)Very drunk.

    1823, Drink, entry in Jon Badcock, Slang: A Dictionary of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, the Pit, or Bon-Ton, page 71, Drunk as Chloe; she must have been an uproarious lass.

Origin

Possibly a reference to the Chloe mentioned in the poetry of Matthew Prior.

Possibly a reference to the Chloe mentioned in the poetry of Matthew Prior.

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Synonyms

10 synonyms
drunk as a fiddlerdrunk as a lorddrunk as a piperdrunk as a skunkdrunk as a sowdrunk as a wheelbarrowdrunk as an owldrunk as David's sowfull as a googtight as a tick

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
drumstickdrunkB1drunkendrunkenness

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