Tacky – Sticky from booze.
Taken a Buford bait – Originally this phrase meant to take a drink. Since at least the early 1800s; possibly goes as far back as the late 1700s.
Taken a chirruping glass
Taken a cup too much
Taken a drop too much
Taken a glass too much
Taken a segue
Taken a shard/shourd – Tipsy. British, 1800s.
Taken in some O-Be-Joyful
Taken more than one can hold
Taken one over the eight – See "One over the eight."
Taken one’s drops
Taken too much – Euphemistic.
Taking a trip
Taking it easy – Tipsy. Late 1800s to early 1900s.
Taking in/on cargo – 1800s.
Taking on a load
Taking on fuel – Getting drunk, drinking alcohol to excess.
Taking one’s broth – Nautical, mid 1700s to mid 1800s.
Taking one’s drops – Noted by Benjamin Franklin.
Taking one’s medicine
Talking load
Talking loud
Talking to Jamie Moore
Talking to Jim Beam – From a whisky brand name.
Tangle-leg – "Tangle-leg" is the rough, sometimes deadly whisky of the Old West. From its affect on one’s ability to walk.
Tangled
Tangled-legged
Tanglefooted
Tanglelegged
Tank up – Very drunk. Bahamian slang.
Tanked – In British army slang, "tank" once meant "canteen" as in an eating place for soldiers. Since the late 1800s.
Tanked out
Tanked to the wide – Cf. "Dead to the wide."
Tanked up
Tanking up
Tanky
Tanned
Tap-shackled – Chained to a keg of liquor.
Taplash wretched
Tapped
Tapped out
Tapped the Admiral – From the phrase "He’d tap the Admiral," meaning that one would do anything for a drink of spirits. Stems from the legend that Lord Nelson’s body was preserved in rum. Today, to "tap the Admiral" means to have a nip of potent potable, usually on the sly. "Nelson’s blood" is Navy slang for rum. Cf. "Sucked the monkey."
Tatered
Tattooed – Cf. "Screwed, blued and tattooed."
Taverned
Tavern bitch has bitten one on/in the head – Popular prints of tavern scenes from the 1600s to the 1800s often show a dog among the tavern’s patrons. Thus, means that one has fallen onto the floor, where it is possible to get bitten on the head. Since circa 1608.
Taverned – Dates back possibly as far as the 1300s. British.
Tead/Teed – From "tea," whisky. Since the 1920s.
Tead/Teaed/Teed up
Tearing up
Teched
Ted
Teed to the tits
Teeth are floating - See quot;Back teeth afloat."
Teeth under – Cf. "Back teeth afloat."
Temulent – From "temulency" or "temulence," intoxication. Root word is Latin "temulentus" for "intoxicated."
Temulentious
Temulentive
That way
Thawed – From the dripping of melted ice. Noted by Benjamin Franklin.
The bloody flag is out
The flag of defiance is out
The king is one’s cousin – Noted by Benjamin Franklin.
The malt is above the water – Cf. "Malt above the meal." Noted by Benjamin Franklin.
The malt is above the wheat with one – Mid 1500s to early 1800s.
The morning after
The sun has shone on them
The worse – Shortening of "The worse for drink."
The worse for drink
The worse for liquor
The worse for wear
There – Possibly from one of the following three phrases, or from "Getting there."
There with both feet – To "get there with both feet" is to be very successful. Perhaps this means that one has been very successful at getting fried.
There with the goods
There with what it takes
Thick-headed
Thick-legged
Thick-lipped – Refers to difficulty with speech.
Thick-tongued
Thirsty
Thoroughly drunk
Thoroughly intoxicated
Thrashed
Three bricks short of a load
Three parts five-eighths – Variation of following term.
Three parts seven-eighths – Nautical. Possibly from "Three sheets in the wind."
Three sheets – Short for "Three sheets in the wind."
Three sheets in the shade
Three sheets in/to the wind – Totally drunk. A "sheet" is a rope holding a sail in place. A "sheet in (or to) the wind" is such a rope that has come loose. To "have a sheet in the wind" is common nautical slang for to be drunk, so "three sheets in the wind" means very drunk indeed. Originally British, since the 1820s.
Three sheets in the wind and one flapping
Three sheets in the wind and the other one flapping
Three sheets in the wind’s eye
Throwed off
Throwing a wing-ding
Thrown away the cork
Thrown down
Thumped over the head with Sampson’s jawbone – Cf. "Had a thump over the head with Sampson's jawbone." Noted by Benjamin Franklin.
Tickeyboo
Tiddled – Slightly drunk. British.
Tiddly/Tiddley – Tipsy. From "tiddlywink," rhyming slang for "drink" and meaning liquor, or slang for an unlicensed tavern. Since the late 1800s.
Tiddy
Tied a bag on – "Bag" is nautical slang for a pot of beer.
Tied on the bear
Tied one on
Tied the bag on
Tiffed
Tiffled
Tight/Tite – Full enough to burst; or reasonably, but not excessively, drunk. Since the 1850s.
Tight as a boiled owl – 1800s
Tight as a brassiere
Tight as a D-cup tit in an A-cup bra
Tight as a drum – Heavily inebriated.
Tight as a duck's ass/arse
Tight as a fart – Refers to the tension to avoid farting. British, since circa 1925.
Tight as a goat – "Tight" plus "stinking (drunk) as a goat."
Tight as a lord
Tight as a mink
Tight as a newt – May imply that one is "water-tight." Cf. "Pissed as a newt." Mainly military use.
Tight
as a rat Tight as a Scotsman
Tight as a ten-day drunk – Very drunk.
Tight as a tick – Tight as a tick attached to its victim. Cf. "Full as a tick."
Tight as an owl – From "Drunk as an owl."
Tight as Andronicus
Tight as Dick’s hatband/hat band
Tight as the bark on a tree – Very drunk.
Tight up – Bahamian slang.
Tight-lipped
Tight-wadded
Tighter than a drum
Tighter than a goat
Tighter than a mink
Tighter than a new boot
Tighter than a Scotsman
Tighter than a tick
Tighter than Dick’s hatband
Tighter than the bark on a tree
Tightly
Tightly slight – Possibly a variation of "Slightly tightly."
Tilted
Tin hat(s) – Cf. "Got on one’s little hat." British military, since the late 1800s.
Tin-hatted – Naval variant of "Tin hat."
Tinned – British variation of "Canned." Since the 1940s.
Tip merry – Tipsy. From the tipping of a drinking mug. British, since the early 1600s.
Tip-top
Tip top tippler – Drunk on champagne.
Tipium Grove – See "In Tipium Grove."
Tipped/Tipt
Tipping
Tipping one’s/the elbow
Tipping the little finger – Australian.
Tippled
Tippling – Ultimately from Norwegian "tipla," to take frequent small drinks.
Tipply
Tippy
Tipsificated
Tipsified – British, early 1800s.
Tipsy/Tipsey – Slightly drunk. A "tip" (short for "tipple") is a draft of liquor. Since the 1500s.
Tired – US euphemism since the 1800s.
Tired and emotional – Extremely drunk. Coined by the magazine Private Eye as a euphemism to mask the activities of celebrities.
Tishy – From mispronunciation of "Tipsy."
Titley – Variation of "Tiddly."
Tizzied – Appears in Lewis Padgett’s story "The Proud Robot."
To the gills – Shortening of "Up to the gills."
Toast
Toasted – Very high. Reinforced by the practice of drinking a "toast."
Toasty
Toe back – Heavily inebriated.
Toe up
Toes down
Tol-lol – Drunk and happy. From Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire slang for "pretty good." British, since the 1890s.
Tomado
Tongue-tied – Noted by Benjamin Franklin.
Too convivial
Too far north – "North" is Nautical slang for "strong" or "well-fortified," said esp. of grog.
Too many cloths in the wind – See "Three sheets in the wind." Since the 1800s.
Too many clothes in/on the wind
Too numerous to mention – Drunk and angry. British, since the 1880s.
Took a dive
Took one’s broth til one capsized – Drank until one fell out of one’s chair. Nautical slang.
Took one’s drops
Top-heavy – Unable to stand without swaying. Since circa 1675.
Top-loaded
Toped
Toper
Topped
Topped off – Completely full. Suggests a gas tank after a motorist has topped it off.
Topped off one’s antifreeze – Cf. "Antifreezed."
Topped up
Toppled – Very inebriated.
Topper
Toppy
Topsy-boozy/-boosy
Topsy-turvy – Noted by Benjamin Franklin.
Topy – Variant of "Toppy."
Tore
Tore back
Tore down
Tore/Torn up
Tore up from the floor up
Torn
Torqued – "Twisted." Possibly of army origin.
Torrid – British, late 1700s.
Tosie
Tossed
Tossicated
Tosticated
Tostificated – Corruption of "Intoxicated." British & US, l700s to early 1900s.
Tostified
Topsy-mosy
Totaled – Very drunk. Suggests a "totaled" automobile. Cf. "Wrecked."
Totally drunk
Totally pissed
Totty
Touched – Mildly drunk.
Touched as a boiled owl
Touched off
Touched with drink
Tough as a boiled/biled owl – Drunk and belligerent. See "Drunk as a boiled owl."
Tow-row – Drunk and disorderly.
Tow up
Towered – Congressional slang. First appeared after the rejection of John Tower as secretary in the phrase "Let’s go out and get towered."
Toxed – From "Intoxicated." British, early 1600s.
Toxic
Toxicated
Toxified
Toxy – British & US.
Trammeled – Incapacitated. Noted by Benjamin Franklin.
Translated – Transferred to another state. Society use. Possibly from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in which appears the line "Bless thee, Bottom, thou art translated."
Trashed/T-rashed
Trashed out of one’s gourd
Traveling light
Trifle maudlin
Trimmed down
Trip
Tripped
Tripped out
Tripped up
Tripping
Tripping drunk
Trippy – Possibly from drug lingo.
Trolleyed
Trounced
Troused
Trousered – Scottish slang
Trying Taylor’s best
T.U.B.B. – Acronym for "Tits Up But Breathing."
Tubed – Vanishing down the tubes, hence, deeply intoxicated.
Tubed up
Tumbled down the sink – Heavily inebriated. To "tumble down the sink" means to drink in rhyming slang. Since the late 1800s.
Tumbling
Tumbling drunk – Drunk and willing to have sex. Possibly from "tumble," to seduce or copulate. British, 1800s.
Tuned – From electronics. Since the 1920s.
Tuned up
Tuned up a little
Tuppence on the can – Tipsy. Public house slang.
Turned on – Probably began as drug slang. Since the 1950s.
Turning up one’s pinky/little finger – Suggests that one habitually gets drunk.
Turnt – Extremely intoxicated.
Turugiddy
Tuzzy – Possibly related to "Muzzy." British, 1800s.
Tweased
Tweaked/Tweeked – Heavily intoxicated. Valley Girl talk.
Twisted – Very drunk.
Two sheets in/to the wind – See "Three sheets in the wind."
Two-thirds kicked in the ass
Tying a bag on – See "Tied a bag on."
Tying one on
Ugly
Ugly drunk
U.I. – Under the Influence.
Umbriago
Unable to say British Constitution – Since the late 1800s. Cf. "Can’t say National Intelligencer."
Unable to scratch oneself
Unable to see a hole in a ladder – Since the mid 1800s.
Unable to sport a right line – Oxford University slang.
UnbalancedUnco’ happy
Uncorked
Under – Implies unconsciousness. Or, may be short for "Under the table," "Under the influence," or some other such term.
Under full sail
Under full steam
Under the affluence of incohol – Humorous spoonerism inspired by the incoherent speech of drunks. Australian, since the 1950s.
Under the influence
Under the influence of alcohol
Under the influence of liquor
Under the sauce
Under the table – Because one has fallen there. From the days when excess drinking was considered gentlemanly (see "Drunk as a lord"). Especially in the 1700s and 1800s, men of status would vie in a one-upmanship of drinking each other under the table.
Under the wagon
Under the weather – A popular euphemism. Cf. "Ill." Since the 1800s; may be of nautical origin.
Underway
Unglued
Unkdray
Unsensed
Unsober – Euphemistic. Since the early 1600s.
Unsteady
Unsteady on one’s feet
Unwell – Euphemistic. Covering up drunkenness by mentioning one of its symptoms. Cf. "Ill," "Under the weather."
Up – High. Probably originated in drug slang.
Up a stump
Up a tree
Up in one’s hat
Up large
Up on blocks – Possibly refers to a car without wheels supported on cinder blocks.
Up on Olympus
Up the creek – Implies that one is in trouble due to inebriation. Truncation of "Up the creek (Shit Creek) without a paddle."
Up the pole – Rather drunk. Cf. "Getting up the pole." Since the late 1800s.
Up to one’s/the eyeballs
Up to one’s eyebrows
Up to the ears
Up to the gills – Having imbibed a considerable quantity of potent potables. Frequently combined with other terms to indicate extreme intoxication.
Upholstered
Upon the go
Upon the spree
Upped the buckets
Uppish – From elated feeling and, possibly, cheekiness. British, since the early 1700s.
Uppity
Upset
Upside down
Upsy/Upsee/Upsey/Upsie/Upse/Upsee – The proper spelling is "Upsy"; the rest are improper variants. From various modes of drinking – see the following two terms. Late 1500s to 1600s.
Upsy Dutch
Upsy English
Upsy Freeze/Freze/Friese
