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feel no pain

feel no pain verb: to be intoxicated.

Verb

feel no pain (third-person singular simple present feels no pain, present participle feeling no pain, simple past and past participle felt no pain)

  1. (euphemistic) To be intoxicated.
    • The evidence is undisputed that Scott Peterson and the other boys chipped in (pooled their money) to buy the beer, that they were all together drinking it, that they all "felt no pain".1979 Feb. 21, Justice Lee, "Munford, Inc. v. Ira Peterson et al.," Supreme Court of Mississippi, 368 So. 2d 213 (1979), No. 50856 (retrieved 27 May 2017)
    • Pop came over with a number of his saloon cronies . . . . They were feeling no pain as usual, and all was high hilarity as my dad showed them proudly all around.1997, John McCabe, Cagney, ch. 1 (reprinted in New York Times) (retrieved 27 May 2017)

Forms of feel no pain

third-person singular presentfeels no pain
present participlefeeling no pain
past participlefelt no pain
pastfelt no pain

Questions about feel no pain

What does feel no pain mean?
Feel no pain means to be intoxicated.
What part of speech is feel no pain?
Feel no pain is a verb.
What is the past tense of feel no pain?
The past tense of feel no pain is felt no pain.

Words near feel no pain in the dictionary

  1. feel in one's waters
  2. feel like
  3. feel like death
  4. feel like oneself
  5. feel nine feet tall
  6. feel no pain
  7. feel one's legs
  8. feel one's oats
  9. feel one's way
  10. feel oneself
  11. feel out

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