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beered-up

beered-up adjective: intoxicated on beer.

Adjective

beered-up (not comparable)

  1. (slang) intoxicated on beer.
    • Actually he looks much like what is depicted in American movies as the typical pre-war Bavarian who sits goodhumoredly drinking beer out of a giant stein, bellowing ebulliently in beered-up delight as a blonde-braided girl and a lederhosened man dance to the accompaniment of a merry accordion.1963, John Rechy, City of Night, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, Inc., →LCCN, page 264
    • Cardiff is a legendary boozing town, and right up there with Dublin and Prague when it comes to hen and stag parties – most Friday and Saturday nights see the city centre invaded by hordes of beered-up lads dressed in ladies’ underwear, and sparkly stetsoned, stilettoed ladettes tottering from club...2007, David Atkinson, Neil Wilson, Wales, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 98, column 1
    Synonyms:
    drunk

Synonyms of beered-up

Questions about beered-up

What does beered-up mean?
Beered-up means intoxicated on beer.
What part of speech is beered-up?
Beered-up is an adjective.

Words near beered-up in the dictionary

  1. beercans
  2. beerdarts
  3. Beere
  4. beered
  5. beered up
  6. beered-up
  7. beeregar
  8. beerfest
  9. beerfests
  10. beerful
  11. beergarden

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