zonked
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /zɒŋkt/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒŋkt
Adjective
editzonked (comparative more zonked, superlative most zonked)
- (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.
- (slang) Deeply asleep.
- I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.
- (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
edit- (extremely fatigued): knackered (UK slang); See also Thesaurus:fatigued
- (deeply asleep): fast asleep
- (drunk): See also Thesaurus:drunk
Related terms
editTranslations
editslang: extremely fatigued
slang: deeply asleep
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drunk — see drunk
Further reading
edit- “zonked (out) adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present