plowed

English

Alternative forms

• ploughed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaʊd/
• Rhymes: -aʊd

Verb

plowed

1. simple past and past participle of plow

Adjective

plowed (comparative more plowed, superlative most plowed)

1. Alternative form of ploughed (“turned over with the blade of a plow”)
2. Alternative form of ploughed (“well-trodden or well-researched”)
3. Alternative form of ploughed (“drunk”)
   • 2005, Anita Shreve, A Wedding in December‎^[1], Little, Brown and Company, published 2005, →ISBN:

     We all assumed he'd walked back to campus along the beach, singing off-key as he had a habit of doing when he was plowed.

   • 2005, Gary Stromberg, Jane Merrill, The Harder They Fall: Celebrities Tell Their Real Life Stories of Addiction and Recovery, Hazelden, published 2007, →ISBN, page 72:

     Then I got a fifth of Bushmills and went back to the room and got plowed. That was my week of being "on the wagon."

   • 2013, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, Martha Quinn, Gavin Edwards, VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV's First Wave, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 202:

     I sat on a stool while everybody in the crew rotated around me, offering me shots of tequila. The only thing I had eaten all day was a doughnut, and I got totally plowed.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:plowed.

Synonyms

• (drunk): see also Thesaurus:drunk.