shickered

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Hebrew שיכּור.

Pronunciation

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Verb

shickered

  1. simple past and past participle of shicker

Adjective

shickered (comparative more shickered, superlative most shickered)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Drunk.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 458:
      ‘I'm shikkered. I've never been so shikkered before. Do you know how I know? Because,’ he started giggling, ‘because I don't normally fucking swear.’
    • 1994, Annamarie Jagose, In Translation, p. 13:
      'You're shickered, dear.' She is coolly diagnostic. 'You know what you're like when you're shickered.'

Synonyms

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