hammered

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

hammered (comparative more hammered, superlative most hammered)

1. Having been hit with a hammer or hammer-like object.
2. (UK, slang) very drunk; inebriated.
   • 2019, Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie, Trapeze, page 243:

     ‘Yeah, sorry about that, I was hammered.’

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• hammered dulcimer

Translations

done by hammering

• Bulgarian: кован (bg) (kovan)
• German: gehämmert (de)
• Latin: malleatus

drunk

• Bulgarian: много пиян (mnogo pijan)
• Finnish: jurrissa
• German: breit (de), sternhagelvoll (de), hackedicht (de)
• Portuguese: bêbado (pt), bêbedo (pt)
• Russian: напившийся (ru) (napivšijsja), нажравшийся (ru) (nažravšijsja)

Verb

hammered

1. simple past and past participle of hammer