zonked

adj — 3 senses

zonked

adj

/zɒŋkt/

Etymology From zonk + -ed.

1

Slang Extremely fatigued.

  • After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.
  • zoegirl:yeah, but don’t say anything to my mom about it. (not that u would.) hey, i’ve gotta go to bed. i’m zonked.2004, Lauren Myracle, ttyl, New York, NY: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 57:
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  • (yawns) I'm so zonked. The red alerts from that wormhole kept me up half the night. / Oh, I know. It's, like, are we crossing the event horizon or not? Like, I don't care actually. I just want you to pick one.2021 August 19, Chris Kula, “Kayshon, His Eyes Open” (0:08 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 2, spoken by D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells):
  • "Anyone up for a game of parcheesi?" / "Maybe a movie. I'm zonked." / "The Brothers McMullin?"2023 August 31, Jake Bender, Zach Dunn, Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, w, Paul Simms, “Exit Interview” (22:36 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 10, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
2

Slang Deeply asleep.

  • I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.
3

Slang Drunk; intoxicated.

  • The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs.1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 253:
  • [S]wingers in the audience were getting zonked on beer and fresh sea breezes and sound […]1974 July 23, “(please specify the article title)”, in New York, volume 7, number 27, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
1 more example
  • […] playing eight-ball while zonked, chugging beer with locals […]2004, Ed Sanders, Tales of beatnik glory:
Related terms
zonk, zonk out

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