banjaxed

What it means

1. 1.

   Broken, ruined, beyond fixing. Used of machines, plans and knees.

2. 2.

   Of a person: exhausted, or hungover.

In use

• The washing machine is banjaxed.

• I'm banjaxed after that walk.

Where it comes from

Origin unknown — a genuinely opaque Dublin coinage of the early twentieth century with no convincing source in Irish or English. Flann O'Brien used it heavily in his Irish Times column, which is largely why it is known nationally.

First attested: early 20th century

Other forms

Similar terms:

bunched, wrecked