pilled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪld/
- Rhymes: -ɪld
Adjective
pilled (comparative more pilled, superlative most pilled)
- (slang) Pilled-up, intoxicated on pills.
- 1966, Alan Bestic, Turn Me on Man, page 20:
- Remember when I was bumming around Chelsea on the purple hearts! The chicks there thought I was God's gift to their little bohemia. A real devil. ‘I'm pilled to the gills,’ I'd tell them and their little eyes would grow as big as plates.
- 2014, Casey Harison, quoting “Irish” Jack Lyons, Feedback: The Who and Their Generation, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 65:
- I never give these randy bastards a second glance when I'm dancing because when I'm pilled sex is too slow and anyway my legs are like rubber and I feel like I can out-dance anyone.
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- (textiles) Of woven fabric: having formed small matted balls of fiber.
- (slang) In a state of believing, especially from evidence but not necessarily.
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)
Verb
pilled
- simple past tense and past participle of pill
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2023), “pilled (up) adj.”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang