oiled

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Verb

oiled

1. simple past and past participle of oil

Adjective

oiled (comparative more oiled, superlative most oiled)

1. Covered in, or supplied with, oil.

   Synonyms: oily, oleose

   an oiled machine

   a person's oiled body

2. (slang) Drunk. Usually in conjunction with well.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

   I got well oiled last night.

   • 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 14, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:

     "Say, was he oiled when the accident happened?"
     "No, he was on the wagon again. …"

   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 245:

     You could tell he wasn’t tired at all, though. He was pretty oiled up, for one thing.

Derived terms

• oiled silk
• well-oiled
• well-oiled machine

 

Anagrams

• deoil, eolid, oldie