slammed

Adjective

slammed (comparative more slammed, superlative most slammed)

1. (slang) Very busy with work.
   • I was just too slammed to intervene. By drink number five he was snapping his fingers to get my attention and his tips were getting smaller and smaller. He was becoming my worst enemy and he could sense it.2004 December 2, Ty Wenzel, Behind Bars: The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 12
   • Or, worse yet, you've been so slammed with working on a massive science project about helium that you haven't stayed caught up in any of your other classes.2009, Kurt Johnston, Mark Oestreicher, My School, Zondervan, →ISBN
2. (slang) Drunk.
   • Q. You get very slammed? A. Yes. But if I just go out for social drinks, a couple of pints. A. And how often do you go out and get really slammed? Q. About once a fortnight. But I get stoned [i.e. on cannabis] all the time. It's better.2012 November 12, Donald West J, Male Prostitution, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123
   • By the time it was my turn, I was more slammed than I had been in a very long time, maybe ever. Especially around that many people. My eyelids felt heavy. […] And everybody as drunk as me. They wouldn't even remember.2015 January 20, Susan Adrian, Tunnel Vision: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 17
3. (slang) Packed; crowded; (of a venue) full of would-be customers.
   • Then, one evening in the spring of 2002, the bar was absolutely slammed. It was a Tuesday, ten-cent-hot-wings night, and the local Pagan's Saints gang had the 19th Hole overflowing with leathers, mullets, and ponytails.2012 January 5, Doc Hendley, Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World, Penguin, →ISBN
   • Lauren was at work the next morning, absolutely slammed, the waiting area filled with people and a crowd outside all waiting to get in because it was Father's Day and everyone wanted to treat their dad. Their wait time was[…]2013, Jane Porter, The Good Wife, Berkley, →ISBN, page 302