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three sheets

three sheets is the ellipsis of three sheets to the wind.

Meaning of three sheets to the wind

Adjective

three sheets to the wind (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Unsteady from drink.
    • That late in the evening, he was three sheets to the wind and had long since stopped making sense.

Questions about three sheets

What is three sheets the ellipsis of?
Three sheets is the ellipsis of three sheets to the wind.

Words near three sheets in the dictionary

  1. three Rs
  2. three score and fifth
  3. three score and ten
  4. three seconds rule
  5. three seconds rules
  6. three sheets
  7. three sheets in the wind
  8. three sheets to the wind
  9. three sisters
  10. three sixties
  11. three sixty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: three sheets (page history and authors); three sheets to the wind (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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