pissed drunk

• pissed-drunk

pissed drunk (not comparable)

1. Drunk, especially if extremely so; blind drunk.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

   • 1987 [1808], New York (State). Court of Appeals., New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.‎^[1], page 4298:

     James knocked on my door, pissed drunk, man, was he bombed, he had a .22 in his waist, a cowboy hat on and couldn't even talk. And I told him, listen, why don't you go away with that gun, man, I don't need no problems. And he went away.

   • 1989, Brendan Gleeson, Breaking Up‎^[2], Passion Machine, →ISBN, page 7:

     FRANK: I can't fucken stand it. Everybody gets pissed drunk and holds their breath going in the door.

   • 1993 [1994], Sorelle Saidman, Bryan Adams: Everything He Does‎^[3], Sidgwick & Jackson [originally Random House of Canada], →ISBN, page 78:

     It was like 'That's shit, man,' 'That's dogmeat,' and 'Hey, Keith, how could you play like that?' Bryan had this big silly grin on his face—he was pissed drunk—and he'd be pointing at Keith going 'Hey man you're shitfaced!'"

   • 1995, CLA Journal‎^[4], volumes 38-39, numbers 1-4, College Language Association (U.S.), page 317:

     In all his years, Sam had been there to put back the pride that a "pissed drunk" father had eroded, to model (hu)man behavior, and to build all the other sundry things that make relations between any two people special.

   • 1996, Seagull Theatre Quarterly‎^[5], numbers 11-19, Seagull Foundation for the Arts, page 15:

     VIKKY: All right, when you marry Shalu we won't talk like this. But for now... (laughs, to Ajju) You know, he was pissed drunk, and was screaming at the top of his voice, 'I'll burn down this bloody factory ' - and he was trying to burn his own jhuggi!

   • 1997 September 30, Susan G. Drummond, “The Children under the Bed”, in Incorporating the Familiar: An Investigation Into Legal Sensibilities in Nunavik‎^[6], McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, page 73:

     My wedding night, I hit my wife. I still regret it to this day. On our wedding day she was getting pissed drunk and acting like an idiot. She was acting like a fool, and I hit her. I told her to smarten up, that everyone was watching us and that she was acting like a fool, getting pissed drunk and staggering around.

   • 2003, Michael Feeney Callan, Richard Harris: Sex, Death & the Movies: an Intimate Biography‎^[7], Robson, →ISBN, page 82:

     A woman in the front row sniffed his toxic breath and shouted, "My God, he's pissed drunk!" O'Toole, of course, was ready for her. He said, "You think this is bad? Wait till you see the other fella."'

   • 2005 March 8, John Dalton, Heaven Lake: A Novel‎^[8], Scribner, →ISBN, page 165:

     "Fucking right! A month or two before you did. Got completely pissed drunk, staggered out of the nightclub, and went straight to—" He raised an eyebrow. "You went along with them to the whorehouse?"

   • 2010 July 15, Mary Carter, She'll Take It‎^[9], Kensington Books, →ISBN:

     "She doesn't mean pissed drunk," Tommy laughs. "Although we're that too. She means pissed, pissed off. We're pissed off!" he slurs.

• Pissed drunk is a set phrase which refers to someone being drunk and doesn't normally indicate someone's mood. This is unlike pissed, which by itself can mean "angry" or "drunk", although the latter meaning is chiefly used in countries where Commonwealth English is spoken. Despite this, pissed drunk is used even in the United States, where pissed is normally only used to mean someone is angry (pissed off).
• While pissed drunk is a set adjectival phrase, the words pissed and drunk can also be used as an adjective and noun pair. For example, in the phrase, "There was a pissed drunk outside." pissed is functioning as an adjective while drunk is a separate noun, with the sentence having the meaning of "There was an angry drunk person outside."