blotto

«blotto» in Mova's school dictionary: Very drunk — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (blotto — slang, old-fashioned)

meaning for a pupil

(slang, UK) Very drunk. tree →

sense in the lessons

It appears in comic stories and rough or old-fashioned British talk about adults who have drunk too much alcohol. In safety lessons, being drunk is dangerous and alcohol is not for children. Phrases: get blotto, completely blotto.

examples

• (slang) Uncle Fred was completely blotto at the wedding. tree →
• (slang) They got blotto and had to be taken home in a taxi. tree →
• In the old comedy, the butler found his master blotto in the garden. tree →
• (slang) He was so blotto he could not stand up. tree →
• Getting blotto is dangerous for anyone. tree →
• The story's silly lord was always blotto by dinner. tree →

note

Slang and a bit old-fashioned; the neutral words are drunk or intoxicated (formal). Not a polite word.

In the corpora

• "Blotto" is old British slang for very drunk.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «blotto» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.