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syphed up (comparative more syphed up, superlative most syphed up)

  1. (US slang) Afflicted with syphilis; syphilitic.
    • 1960, Ronald Verlin Cassill, Clem Anderson:
      And then, I always tell myself if I get siffed up, I'll merely knock myself off, put the old gun in my mouth.
    • 1968, Charles Bukowski, letter, 20 April, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 103:
      I am the siffed-up redhead being let out of the car on the corner.
    • 1974, Joe Gores, Interface:
      She wanted to die. She was a syphed-up junkie whore, she'd have died before she was forty of malnutrition or an accidental OD […].