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half-seas over

[ haf-seez, hahf- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Slang.

half seas over

First recorded in 1545–55

Garibaldi replied that he had already been half-seas over, but would not object to another cruise.

He said he had traveled half-seas over, "on his face," and would now travel the other half on a vessel.

He's safe enough, I have fairly entered him, and he's more than half seas over already.

T wa'n't none o' yer sober perfumes nuther, but kind o' half-seas-over all the time, an' pooty consid'able in the wind.

He noticed some of the men were half seas over and all were jolly.

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