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stoned

(stōnd)

adj. Slang

1. Intoxicated by a drug, especially marijuana.

2. Drunk.

[Earlier stone, drunk, shortening of stone-drunk, drunk senseless, very drunk.]

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stoned

(stəʊnd)

adj

(Recreational Drugs) slang under the influence of drugs or alcohol

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stoned

(stoʊnd)

adj. Informal.

1. drunk.

2. intoxicated or dazed from drugs; high.

[1950–55, Amer.]

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Adj.

stoned - under the influence of narcotics

hopped-up

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

drunk, inebriated, intoxicated - stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); "a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors"; "helplessly inebriated"

stoned

adjective

1. 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, tight, zonked.

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

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

drugged.

Informal: doped.

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

Translations

drogato ubriaco

stein

stoned

[stəʊnd] ADJ (on drugs) → colocado; (= drunk) → borracho

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stoned

[ˈstəʊnd] adj (on drugs) → défoncé(e) (= drunk) → bourré(e) stone deaf stone-deaf [ˌstəʊnˈdɛf] adj → sourd(e) comme un potstone-ground stoneground [ˈstəʊngraʊnd] adj [flour, wheat] → moulu(e) sur pierre

stoned

[stəʊnd] adj pred (fam) (drunk, on drugs) → fatto/a

References in classic literature ?

This remonstrance being received with yells and flying stones, according to a custom of late years comfortably established among the police regulations of our English communities, where Christians are stoned on all sides, as if the days of Saint Stephen were revived, Durdles remarks of the young savages, with some point, that 'they haven't got an object,' and leads the way down the lane.

(feeling it hopeless to drag him, or coax him), and crosses to the iron railing where the Stony (and stoned) One is profoundly meditating.

Not a person, not a piece of property, not a winder, not a horse, nor a dog, nor a cat, nor a bird, nor a fowl, nor a pig, but what he stoned, for want of an enlightened object.