souped

Adjective

souped (comparative more souped, superlative most souped)

1. (New-England, slang) Excited.
2. In trouble or in difficulty. (Compare in the soup.)
   • Luck I had the presenee [sic] of mind to dive into Manning's or I was souped.1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, section II
3. (slang) Intoxicated, drunk.
   • […] souped to the gills. He had been drinking with his buddies while momma lay in a hospital bed. He was face down on the floor laughing and singing.2012 08, Tammy Tucker, The River Bottoms, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 166
   • 'There's always morphine,' he said, and I imagined myself, in a bed crisp as blank paper, tubes up my nose and in my arms, souped to the eyeballs on morphine and trying to tell my friends what I thought of them.2018, Cate Kennedy, Dark Roots, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN, page 26
4. (slang) Under the influence of narcotics.