punch drunk
adj1
Dizzy or confused due to repeat blows to the head.
- The fighter looked harmlessly punch drunk, but he was only faking and suddenly threw a vicious, skillful, blow.
2
Behaving in a bewildered or dazed manner, especially due to repeated negative events.
- We've become so accustomed to the word 'billions' over the last ten months that we've become punch drunk about just how much the COVID-19 pandemic has really cost us all.2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3:
- Related terms
- punch-drunkenness