plowed

plowed

English

Alternative forms

• ploughed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaʊd/
• Rhymes: -aʊd

Verb

plowed

1. simple past tense and past participle of plow

Adjective

plowed (comparative more plowed, superlative most plowed)

1. Turned over with the blade of a plow to create furrows (usually for planting crops).
2. (figuratively, rare) Well-trodden or well-researched, previously explored.
3. (US, informal) Drunk.
   • 2005, Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December, Little, Brown and Company (2005), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed.

   • 2005, Gary Stromberg & Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery, Hazelden (2007), →ISBN, page 72:

     Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed. That was my week of being "on the wagon."

   • 2013, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, & Martha Quinn (with Gavin Edwards), VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave, Atria Books (2013), →ISBN, page 202:

     I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:plowed.

Synonyms

• (drunk): see also Thesaurus:drunk.