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plastered

[ plas-terd, plah-sterd ]

adjective

Slang.


plastered

/ ˈ±è±ôɑ˲õ³ÙÉ™»å /

adjective

  1. slang.
    intoxicated; drunk
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Origin of plastered1

First recorded in 1910–15; plaster + -ed 2
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Drive down the roads, and you can see billboards plastered in cities like Green Bay and Madison that read "don't let Elon buy our court" and depict the SpaceX and Tesla boss as a puppeteer.

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Banners advertising SIM cards with cheap rates for calling Myanmar were plastered across buildings, while shops displayed signs in both Thai and Burmese.

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Carol's point is backed up by the fact the estate is plastered with "no parking" signs - even one outside her own home which reads "disabled parking required outside the front of this house".

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That same logo was plastered around the clubhouse too, printed on nameplates adorning every locker.

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It's now "plastered across every possible social media platform known to man," says Dr Gillian Brooks, a lecturer in strategic marketing at King's College London.

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What doesÌýplastered mean?

Plastered is a slang adjective that means extremely drunk.

Plastered is just one of the many slang synonyms for intoxicated, including bombed, blitzed, hammered, smashed, wasted, trashed, sloshed, and tanked.Ìý

Such words often imply that a person is drunk beyond a point of being able to function in even the most basic ways. Someone who’s described as plastered probably can’t even walk or talk properly. In many cases, a person who’s plastered is intoxicated to the point of blacking out—losing consciousness and probably losing their memory of what happened when they were intoxicated.

Example: He got so plastered that he couldn’t remember anything that happened before he woke up in his car, which he had crashed into a tree.

Where doesÌýplastered come from?

The first records of the slang use of plastered come from the early 1900s. The verb plaster means to cover something with plaster, a kind of paste that hardens when it dries. However, plaster can also be used as a slang term meaning to destroy by bombing (or, by extension, to knock down or injure, such as by hitting). Plastered meaning “drunk†may derive from this sense of the word.

Other slang terms meaning “drunk†also use imagery related to things being destroyed, including bombed, blitzed, hammered, and smashed. These terms emphasize the dramatic and harmful effects that alcohol (or other drugs) can have on the brain, resulting in things like memory loss, slurred speech, and the inability to walk without staggering or at all.

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