plowed

English

Alternative forms

• ploughed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaʊd/
• Rhymes: -aʊd

Verb

plowed

1. simple past tense and past participle of plow

Adjective

plowed (comparative more plowed, superlative most plowed)

1. Alternative form of ploughed (“turned over with the blade of a plow”)
2. Alternative form of ploughed (“well-trodden or well-researched”)
3. Alternative form of ploughed (“drunk”)
   • 2005, Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December‎^[1], Little, Brown and Company, published 2005, →ISBN:

     We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed.

   • 2005, Gary Stromberg; Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery, Hazelden, published 2007, →ISBN, page 72:

     Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed. That was my week of being "on the wagon."

   • 2013, Nina Blackwood; Mark Goodman; Alan Hunter; Martha Quinn; Gavin Edwards, VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 202:

     I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plowed.

Synonyms

• (drunk): see also Thesaurus:drunk.