The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.
besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet
(adjective) very drunk
Source: WordNet® 3.1
crocked
simple past tense and past participle of crock
crocked (comparative more crocked, superlative most crocked)
(British) injured (of a person)
(British) broken (of a thing)
• (injured): hurt, imbrued, injured; see also wounded
• (broken): busted, inoperative, knackered; see also out of order
crocked (comparative more crocked, superlative most crocked)
(informal, North America) drunk (of a person)
• blotto, plastered, sottish; see also drunk
Source: Wiktionary
Crock (krk), n. Etym: [Cf. W. croeg cover, Scot. crochit covered.]
Definition: The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.
Crock, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Crocked (krkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Crocking.]
Definition: To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth.
Crock, v. i.
Definition: To give off crock or smut.
Crock, n.
Definition: A low stool. "I . . . seated her upon a little crock." Tatler.
Crock (krk), n. Etym: [AS. croc, croca, crog, croh; akin to D. kruik, G. krug, Icel. krukka, Dan. krukke, Sw. kruka; but cf. W. crwc bucket, pail, crochan pot, cregen earthen vessel, jar. Cf. Cruet.]
Definition: Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. Like foolish flies about an honey crock. Spenser.
Crock, v. t.
Definition: To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 November 2024
(noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards
The expression “coffee break” was first attested in 1952 in glossy magazine advertisements by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau.