Pissed / Pished However it is probably the most commonly used word in the UK to describe being drunk. If you spend any time in the UK, you will hear it all the time.
Bevvy. Short for beverage, you would usually hear this word uttered in a pub to refer to the alcoholic kind, especially when in want of another round.
Way back when English was Old English, between AD 600 and 1100, you were either “drunken” or “fordrunken” (very drunk) after a night of carousing. Even today, “drunken” will do for describing how you may be spending New Year's Eve. But you might also be “blinkered,” “oiled” or “lit.”
The most common British slang term for alcohol is booze. This is the most widely used, generic term for alcohol. You also have more specific terms like “bevvy” which usually refers to beer or cider. Some British people also use the term “sauce” to refer to alcohol, usually in terms of large quantities.
Slang Words for Being Drunk
The words below are commonly used in America, and other places where English is spoken, to describe the state of being intoxicated. annihilated. blasted. blitzed. bombed.
“Cross-faded” emerges as a commonly known term for effects of using multiple substances. It most often refers to using alcohol and marijuana simultaneously, and second-most to being drunk and high at the same time.
"Sherbet" as slang for alcoholic drinks
"We're heading to the pub for a few sherbets." – … pints of beer." Reference: "Sherbet".
Plonk, chardy and the goon of fortune
Plonk is perhaps Australia's best-known word for alcohol.
Scottish slang for drunk…
Blootered, Steamin', Wrecked, Bladdered, Hammered, Sloshed and Smashed to name just a few of the more regular sounding ones. 'Ooot yer tree', 'Steamboated', 'Mad wae it' and 'Ooot the game' being some of the stranger sounding phrases!
Swizzling too much would make you 'blootered,' or thoroughly intoxicated. Other adjectives for drunk were: buffy, dead-oh, half-shot, lushy, scammered (like hammered), shicker, sozzled, squiffed, squiffy, squizzed, and tanked. If you looked awful on top of getting drunk, you might be described as 'shickery.
Word of the day: ARFARFAN'ARF (Victorian slang) - a drunkard. Someone who has had many half pints.
sloshed. / (slɒʃt) / adjective. mainly British a slang word for drunk.
Actually having respect for your bartender
In Britain, you get called a barman no matter what your skillset. You could make the world's greatest cocktail in the shortest time ever and people would still call you a barman.
charlie in British English
(ˈtʃɑːlɪ ) noun. British informal. a silly person; fool. Australian old-fashioned, informal.
Pretty or beautiful. A pretty young women could be described as “a bonnie lass”, an attractive man as “a bonnie lad”.
Rocket (Rocket) Scottish slang for crazy. Ronan is a rocket.
“Tatties o'wer the side”.
Translation: “It's all gone horribly wrong – a disaster”
The kiwi slang term, on the turps was used in its early days by referring to drinking spirits such as rum or gin. It has morphed in modern times to any kind of alcoholic drink, especially beer and wine. This phrase means inebriated and getting drunk from being on the turps or 'turpentine'.
But the Australian slang for beer is amber fluid. Some states call it a pint and at others, it is a schooner.
If you're feeling unwell, you could say you are crook. If someone is angry, you could say they've 'gone crook'.
Ben Dover is Cockney Rhyming Slang for Hangover!
Pregaming (also called pre-loading, pre-bar, or prepartying) is defined as drinking while waiting for people to gather for a social event, drinking in order to “get buzzed” before going to a party or function where alcohol will be expensive (e.g., at a bar or a club), or drinking prior to entering a social situation ...