plastered

[plas-terd, plah-sterd]

adjective

Slang.

1. drunk.

plastered

/ ˈplɑːstəd /

adjective

1. slang,  intoxicated; drunk

Word History and Origins

Origin of plastered¹

First recorded in 1910–15; plaster + -ed ²

Example Sentences

They drilled through a newly plastered and redecorated area where they discovered three bags inside a tea-towel, with two containing a Skorpion submachine gun each and a pistol in the remaining package.

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When he took a friend to see her in New York the following year, her Manhattan townhouse was plastered with arrows and signs pointing her to the bathroom and other essential places.

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For weeks in the build-up to the tournament she was plastered on murals, billboards and countless social media posts to push tickets.

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Still, the pinkifying of the bay might not be much of a spectacle despite signs that were plastered all around the Santa Monica Pier area that scream: “Why is the water pink?”

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His photo is plastered on the orchestra’s posters and publicity.

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When To Use

What does plastered mean?

Plastered is a slang adjective that means extremely drunk.Plastered is just one of the many slang synonyms for intoxicated, including bombed, blitzed, hammered, smashed, wasted, trashed, sloshed, and tanked. Such words often imply that a person is drunk beyond a point of being able to function in even the most basic ways. Someone who’s described as plastered probably can’t even walk or talk properly. In many cases, a person who’s plastered is intoxicated to the point of blacking out—losing consciousness and probably losing their memory of what happened when they were intoxicated.Example: He got so plastered that he couldn’t remember anything that happened before he woke up in his car, which he had crashed into a tree.