sewed up

adj — 2 senses

sewed up

adj

1

Archaic, Slang Drunk.

Why, zounds! the infernal rascal's dead-drunk in earnest; sewed up completely […]1840, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk, volume 2, page 198:

2

Slang Secured, in the bag.

African-American Vernacular

Related terms: sewn up

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