blotto

American  

[blot-oh] / ˈblɒt oʊ /

adjective

Slang.

1. very drunk; so drunk as to be unconscious or not know what one is doing.

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blotto British  

/ ˈblɒtəʊ /

adjective

1. slang unconscious, esp through drunkenness

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Etymology

Origin of blotto

1915–20; blot ¹ (v.) + -o

Example Sentences

Ideally, as winter nears, the bears get fat, really fat — blotto on berries, acorns and leaves, because the fatter they get, the luckier they get romantically.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2020

A powerful scene in which our blotto protagonist shears off her unwanted hair experiment—Lathan mowing down her tresses in close-up—is easily the movie’s emotional and visual centerpiece.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2018

But what begins as a seemingly simple heist loses steam and focus amid a pileup of Hollywood-style nuts and narcissists who divert Harriet and an increasingly blotto Peter.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2018

The second mate–a little Greek, he was–was on the bridge, and he found the captain was blotto, and he’d never been to Cape Sidney before, and he was worried out of his wits.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund