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单词 airlocked
释义

airlocked

English

Etymology

Share (2005) suggests that the adjective comes from the past participle of the verb airlock (to stop suddenly),[1] which Macaffee (1996) says is “from the cut-out in a diesel engine if air enters the fuel system”.[2]

Adjective

airlocked (comparative more airlocked, superlative most airlocked)

  1. (Northern Ireland, Ulster) Extremely drunk.
    • 2018 April 18, Alan Croft, There's Always Risk in Movement: Tales from Old Reading Town, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
      It was sporadically interrupted by Sam standing up and spreading his arms high and wide to exclaim, 'I'm fuckin' airlocked! I'm fuckin' airlocked!' He was letting everyone know that he was indeed quite drunk.

Synonyms

  • See Thesaurus:drunk

References

  1. Share, Bernard (2005) Slanguage: A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English in Ireland, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, page 3:airlock [vb.] (Ulster). Stop in one’s tracks. Hence airlocked [p. part. as adj.]. The worse for drink.”
  2. Macafee, Carolyn I. (1996) A Concise Ulster Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press
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