Talk:waffled

Quotations

unclear meaning

• 1999, Nicholas Clapp, The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands, page 165:

  "Hold on back there," Ran shouted, not quite in time to forestall my head bouncing against the roof. The way ahead now was waffled, moguled, and still steep.

meaning: intoxicated, under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs

• 2010, Mark T. Sullivan, Triple Cross, page 147:

  Hennessy [...] made coffee in his room, put two vodkas in it from the minibar, and threw in two OxyContins as chasers.

  [...]

  "I was waffled and that's why I didn't see him right away," Hennessy said. "Craig Brooks, this fringe character with a history of mental illness, is standing at the barricade. When we're ten feet away, Brooks brings up a camera with his left hand. I see it, but miss the gun in his right hand [...]