hammered

[ham-erd]

adjective

1. shaped, formed, or ornamented by a metalworker's hammer.

   a hammered bowl of brass; hammered gold.

2. Slang.,  extremely intoxicated from alcoholic liquor or a drug.

   On the weekends we usually get hammered.

Other Word Forms

• unhammered adjective
• well-hammered adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of hammered¹

First recorded in 1515–25; hammer + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Ms. Sears, a Marine veteran who came to America from Jamaica at age 6, hammered the point.

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“Like ‘OK, cool, I have two weeks off, no running—I’m going to start it off with a bang and just get hammered.’”

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We wondered which version of Greece would turn up in Glasgow - the side that hammered Scotland 3-0 or the one that got hammered 3-0 by Denmark last time out.

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India lead the two-match series 1-0 after they hammered the visitors by an innings and 140 runs inside three days in the first Test.

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Dodger fans were so upset with everything that many of them walked out after Kershaw got hammered in a five-run eighth inning.

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