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If I told you that I was I was absolutely legless, that I was totally out of it, that
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I was completely plastered, what would I be talking about? Well I'm going to tell you,
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right after this.
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I'm sure we've all seen someone like this. The six stages of being drunk. They drink
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a lot, then they talk a lot. Then they dance a lot, then they tell you they love you. Then
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they want to do something crazy. But instead of doing something crazy, they fall asleep
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on the train. Well in British English we have hundreds of words to describe being drunk.
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I guess it's a part of our culture. So I wanted to share with the ten best slang words. Let's
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start with tipsy. This means a little bit drunk so not too drunk, just a little bit.
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You are laughing more than you would normally, you are smiling more than you would normally,
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you kind of feel you've got a little buzz. You are kind of excited. 'I get a bit tipsy
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after one glass of wine.' Alright, tipsy, a little bit drunk. Number two pissed. Now
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this is slightly rude, this is a slightly rude word. These are all informal expressions
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so as always be careful about where you use these phrases. Pissed means drunk, yeah so
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it's more drunk than tipsy. It's a really common expression, I use it quite a lot 'I'm
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feeling a bit pissed.' I'm feeling a bit drunk. Pissed. In Scotland they would say 'pished'
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instead of pissed. It's exactly the same meaning just slightly differently pronounced. So 'pished'.
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Number three hammered. Hammered is very drunk, so if we have got a scale, we've got tipsy
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is sort of a little bit drunk, pissed is just drunk, you've got hammered is very drunk.
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'I was hammered last night.' Now you will notice with some of these words that they
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are so random, they are kind of like all most made up words. There is a British comedian
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called Michael Mcintyre and he does a joke about how we can just make up any words to
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mean drunk so he talks about feeling 'pyjamered'. 'Oh I'm absolutely pyjama-ed.' You know it
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could mean drunk, it doesn't but why not, it could do. 'Mate I was so cappuccino'ed
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last night' it could mean drunk. It doesn't but you know, we just use any word. We put
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an -ed on the end and it sounds like you could be drunk. Number four, legless. Again very
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drunk. This one kind of makes sense, right? Legless, you are without your legs because
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you've drunk so much that you can't move. You are struggling to walk. Legless, very
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drunk. Number five, battered. Again, super drunk. 'You were battered at the wedding'.
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You were very drunk at the wedding. Alright a little phrase here 'out of it'. to be out
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of it. 'Look at John over there, he is out of it.' It just means he is very drunk. So
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if you are out of it, you are very drunk. Number seven, this is a rude one so I'm not
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going to say the swear word. 'Sh*tfaced'. This is a brilliant phrase, you know what
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that word is. But yeah if you are sh*tfaced then you are really drunk. Number eight, this
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is one we kind of share with American English, wasted. so if you are wasted, you are completely
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drunk. You have no idea where you are, yeah you are wasted. As I said this is used in
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American English as well so it's kind of shared but it is very commonly used in British English.
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Wasted. The -ed there is /id/ so wasted. Wasted. Number nine, plastered. 'I'm not going to
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dance unless I'm absolutely plastered'. So plastered, very very drunk. And number ten,
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ten and eleven. I'm going to cheat and give you two here. To be off your trolley. A trolley,
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well if you think about on a airplane, the air steward is pushing a trolley with tea
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and coffee on so to be off your trolley to be totally drunk. 'You were off your trolley
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last night.' You were absolutely drunk. Also under the table. To be under the table. Example
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sentence 'By nine o'clock everyone was under the table.' Everyone was drunk. Alright now
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I know that I've missed out loads and loads of fantastic slang phrases to talk about drunk.
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So if you know any others then let me know in the comments below. If you want to make
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up one just like Michael Mcintyre then also let me know in the comments below. You know
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'I was totally sandwiched last night' so if you want to make one up, put it in the comments
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