whacked-out

[hwakt-out, wakt-]

adjective

Slang.

1. tired; exhausted; worn-out.

2. wacky; crazy.

3. stupefied or crazed by narcotic drugs or alcohol; stoned.

Word History and Origins

Origin of whacked out¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Idioms and Phrases

Tired out, exhausted, as in They were whacked out after that long flight . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]

Crazy, especially under the influence of drugs. For example, She looked whacked out when the police picked her up . [ Slang ; mid-1900s]

Example Sentences

Wilson was so whacked-out for part of that period that he never heard about Watergate, a friend said.

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But save a few random guffaws, this whacked-out tale of a Jewish family’s Shabbat dinner that goes wildly off the rails may prompt more eye rolls and exasperated sighs than were surely on the menu.

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Aside from being so whacked-out and silly, it’s just not practically possible.

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“Noah’s bringing in pop music from all over the place, but he’s putting this Texas air into it. That really resonates with me, because we are a whacked-out state that produces a lot of left-field art. At the same time, Noah does his own thing. There’s joy there.”

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He also denounced the trial judge as a “Democrat Trump-deranged judge” and derided a state judge in a separate case who recently refused to halt collection of a $454 million civil fraud penalty against Trump as “another whacked-out judge.”

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