oiled
adj1
Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
- an oiled machine
- a person's oiled body
2
Slang Drunk. Usually in conjunction with an adverb of degree.
- I got well oiled last night.
- It appeared that, being in his own words still considerably "oiled" on his arrival, Bowles's parson had received him into his house with strong disfavour, and, what was worse, put him through a species of inquisition regarding the condition of his soul that had, to again quote Cripps, "nearly sent him mad."1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 149:
2 more examples
- "Say, was he oiled when the accident happened?" "No, he was on the wagon again. …"1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 14, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
- You could tell he wasn’t tired at all, though. He was pretty oiled up, for one thing.1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 245:
- Derived terms
- nonoiled, oiled silk, unoiled, well-oiled, well-oiled machine
- Related terms
- oiler