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slewed
/ sluːd /
adjective
- slang.postpositive intoxicated; drunk
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Origin of slewed1
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Example Sentences
The fire seems to have reached the fuselage from the right engine only after the airplane slewed around on the ground.
The girl watched the penguins going at the double with heads slewed round as though fearful of their tails.
The man was clumping slowly along in his rubber boots; an old cap was slewed awry on his head, its peak drawn down over one ear.
Then the wind slewed the sledge, the runners struck an irregularity in the surface and the whole capsized.
Now she mout say ergin dat I hed orter slewed across fust und den slewed back und fotched de munny.
A few minutes afterward, the Warrior fired her starboard battery's big guns, and then we slewed round and fired the port guns.
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