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zonk

(zôngk, zŏngk)

v. zonked, zonk·ing, zonks Slang

v.tr.

1. To cause to be asleep. Often used with out: My roommate was zonked out on the couch.

2. To stupefy or intoxicate with drugs or alcohol: "zonk their patients with tranquilizers" (Psychology Today).

v.intr.

1. To go to sleep or be asleep. Often used with out.

2. To become intoxicated with drugs or alcohol.

[Origin unknown.]

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zonked

(zɒŋkt)

adj

1. (Recreational Drugs) highly intoxicated from drugs or alcohol

2. utterly exhausted

[C20: of imitative origin]

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zonked

(zɒŋkt, zɔŋkt)

adj. Slang.

1. stupefied from or as if from alcohol or drugs; high.

2. exhausted or asleep.

[1955–60, Amer.]

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zonked

adjective

1. Slang. Stupefied, intoxicated, or otherwise influenced by the taking of drugs:

drugged.

Informal: doped.

Slang: high, hopped-up, lit (up), potted, spaced-out, stoned, turned-on, wiped-out.

2. Slang. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:

besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy.

Informal: cockeyed, stewed.

Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight.

Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.

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zonked

[zɒŋkt] ADJ (also zonked out)

1. (= exhausted) → agotado, reventado, hecho polvo

2. (on drugs) → colgado, colocado (Sp) ; (on drink) → como una cuba, curda inv (Sp)

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

zonked

[ˈzɒŋkt] adj → crevé(e) , claqué(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

zonked

adj (inf) (= drunk, high) → breit (sl), → zu (inf); (= exhausted) → total geschafft (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

zonked

[zɒŋkt] adj (fam) (exhausted) → distrutto/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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