to be intoxicated or inebriated due to excessive drink or drugs, to be [wasted], [pissed], [hammered], [bolloxed], [twatted]

UK slang
> I was totally wazzcocked last night
> Sorry mum I'm a bit wazzcocked...
> Let's go on the wazzcock this weekend.
> He/she is a real wazzcocker!

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Aculeata
algesireceptor
areal specialization
Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
barring facilities
biding place
Br.Som.
broad-sense heritability
bursine
collectivised
computerette
conjugate imaginary point
contourite mound seismic facies
control flow optimized program
Cucurbita pepo L.
curcumene
cypselae
daemon-
data set information
delect
desacetylscilliroside
dodge the column
donger
egranular
erasing of information
et tira (tira)
exciter filter
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fibrillator roller
field stop
free-floating anxiety
front wall inner shield
Fuchs spot
furioso
fuzze grain
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giner
governantes
green rosette
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heat transfer rig
hold pillar
hydraulic loom
infantry battalion
interphone
jewellery-making
Kaipola
Kommunizma, Pik
kthxbye
leakage conductance
line Amberg's
lippe
local separation
marbled meat
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mcquarn
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monongahela rivers
moulsworth
muffel
multiroom
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Odin Ness
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sakara (nigeria)
San Pellegrino
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Syntestan
T-120
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terebene
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typical cyclone
v-cam
visceral pleura