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Definition of Crocked
1. Adjective. Very drunk.
Language type: Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Similar to: Drunk, Inebriated, Intoxicated
Definition of Crocked
1. Verb. (past of crock) ¹
2. Adjective. (British) injured (of a person) ¹
3. Adjective. (British) broken (of a thing) ¹
4. Adjective. (North America) drunk (of a person) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crocked
1. crock [v] - See also: crock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crocked
Literary usage of Crocked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1866)
"OBSERVING in the last HORTICULTURIST another article, by our highly esteemed
friend, Mr. Henderson, headed " Should Plants be crocked," I beg leave, ..."
2. The new world of words. [&c.].by Edward Phillips by Edward Phillips (1720)
"A Curvi-linear or crocked-litt d Angle, that which is made by the ... which takes
its Rife from the meeting of a Right Line and a Curve or crocked Line, ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"It was covered with charred trunks, either prostrate or standing, which crocked
our clothes and hands, and we could not easily have distinguished a bear ..."
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