pie-eyed

pie-eyed
   drunk
   Unable to focus rather than with eyes like pies:
    Brother Yank doesn't believe in getting his nose in the trough before 10 p.m., by which time one and all are absolutely pieeyed. {Private Eye, April 1981)

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  • pie-eyed — adj old fashioned informal very drunk …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • pie-eyed — ► ADJECTIVE informal ▪ very drunk …   English terms dictionary

  • pie-eyed — ☆ pie eyed [pī′īd΄ ] adj. Slang intoxicated; drunk …   English World dictionary

  • pie-eyed — 1. mod. wide eyed with amazement. □ He didn’t cry out. He just stood there pie eyed. □ Why are all those people pie eyed? What happened? 2. mod. alcohol intoxicated. □ That guy is really pie eyed. Send him home. □ …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • Pie-Eyed — Infobox Film name = Pie Eyed image size = caption = director = Scott Pembroke Joe Rock producer = Joe Rock writer = Tay Garnett narrator = starring = Stan Laurel music = cinematography = Edgar Lyons editing = distributor = released = 30 March,… …   Wikipedia

  • pie-eyed —    Someone who is pie eyed is completely drunk.     He had never taken an alcoholic drink so after one beer the boy was pie eyed …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • pie-eyed — drunk, intoxicated, hammered    Byron was pie eyed when we got to the party. He was drunk, man …   English idioms

  • pie eyed — Synonyms and related words: afflicted, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, crocked, crocko, elevated, fried, fuddled, half seas over, high, illuminated, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy, muzzy, oiled, organized,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • pie-eyed — adjective Date: 1904 intoxicated …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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