zonked

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zɒŋkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋkt

Adjective

zonked (comparative more zonked, superlative most zonked)

1. (slang) Extremely fatigued.

   After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.

   • 2004, Lauren Myracle, ttyl, New York, NY: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 57:

     zoegirl: yeah, but don’t say anything to my mom about it. (not that u would.) hey, i’ve gotta go to bed. i’m zonked.

2. (slang) Deeply asleep.

   I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.

3. (slang) Drunk; intoxicated.
   • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 225:

     The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs.

   • 1974 July, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 27:

     […] swingers in the audience were getting zonked on beer and fresh sea breezes and sound […]

   • 2004, Ed Sanders, Tales of beatnik glory:

     […] playing eight-ball while zonked, chugging beer with locals […]

Synonyms

• (extremely fatigued): knackered (UK slang); See also Thesaurus:fatigued
• (deeply asleep): fast asleep
• (drunk): See also Thesaurus:drunk

Related terms

• zonk
• zonk out

Translations

slang: extremely fatigued

• Arabic: مُرْهَق لِلْغَايَة m (murhaq li-l-ḡāya)
• Dutch: uitgeput (nl), afgemat (nl), op (nl)
• French: crevé (fr) m, crevée (fr) f
• Italian: distrutto (it) m, distrutta (it) f

slang: deeply asleep

• Arabic: نَائِماً بِعُمْق m (nāʔiman biʕumq)

drunk — see drunk

Further reading

• Jonathon Green (2024) “zonked (out) adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Anagrams

• zedonk