locked

What it means

1. 1.

   Very drunk. One of a long list of Irish words for the same state, and among the most widely used.

In use

• He was locked before the dinner was served.

• We got absolutely locked.

Where it comes from

The image is of being shut down or seized up, like a mechanism. Ireland's stock of drunkenness words is unusually large — langers, ossified, twisted, flootered, in bits, buckled — and locked sits in the middle of the scale, past tipsy and short of incapable.

Other forms

Similar terms:

ossified, twisted, flootered, buckled