cactused

Adjective

cactused (comparative more cactused, superlative most cactused)

1. Featuring a cactus or cacti.
   • I could not imagine Cadwallader Davies the grocer, in his near-to-waking dream, riding on horseback, two-gunned and Cody-bold, through the cactused prairies.1954, Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning, New Directions Publishing, published 1981, →ISBN, page 10
   • On top it's a dry cactused area inhabited by typical upper desert creatures such as kangaroo rats and collared lizards.1977, Jack Couffer, Mike Couffer, Canyon Summer, Putnam, →ISBN, page 13

   Synonyms:

   cactusy

2. (Australia, slang) Broken; ruined; no longer working, more recently especially related to a technical system.
   • My computer is cactused.
   • His high spirits descended temporarily. 'It took me thirty minutes to get her going again. The lift pump is cactused.'1986, Daryl Guppy, "Some Days Are Rocks", in A Bundle of Yarns (ed. Michael Kavanagh); quoted in Susan Butler, The Dinkum Dictionary, The Text Publishing Company (2009), page 66
3. (Australia, slang) In trouble, screwed.
   • 'Mini — and that's managed by the Germans, by BMW. I tell you, Walshie, a lot of car makers around the world are cactussed. We're not Robinson Crusoe. But if times are tough now, what'll they be like when the Chinese arrive? If the UK's down to one profitable car maker. D'you think we can possibly...2007, Kevin James Baker, Economic Tsunami: China's Car Industry Will Sweep Away Western Car Makers, Rosenberg Publishing, →ISBN, page 22
   • Good thing somebody figured out the radio, otherwise you all would have been cactused, in a remote location like that, mate.2008 May 22, John Ward, “Re: Helicopter - Wish I had more guts!!”, in alt.games.microsoft.flight-sim (Usenet)