zonked

From zonk +‎ -ed.

• IPA^(key): /zɒŋkt/

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋkt

zonked (comparative more zonked, superlative most zonked)

1. (slang) Extremely fatigued.

   Synonyms: (UK slang) knackered, weary; see also Thesaurus:fatigued

   After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.

   • 2004, Lauren Myracle, ttyl, New York, NY: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 57:

     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.

   • 2021 August 19, Chris Kula, “Kayshon, His Eyes Open” (0:08 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks‎^[1], season 2, episode 2, spoken by D'Vana Tendi (Noël Wells):

     “(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.”

   • 2023 August 31, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn & Sam Johnson & Sarah Naftalis & Paul Simms, “Exit Interview” (22:36 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎^[2], season 5, episode 10, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):

     “Anyone up for a game of parcheesi?” “Maybe a movie. I'm zonked.” “The Brothers McMullin?”

2. (slang) Deeply asleep.

   Synonyms: dead asleep, fast asleep; see also Thesaurus:asleep

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

3. (slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

   Synonyms: boozy, inebriated; see also Thesaurus:drunk

   • 1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bantam, published 1997, →ISBN, page 225:

     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.

   • 1974 July, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 27:

     […] swingers in the audience were getting zonked on beer and fresh sea breezes and sound […]

   • 2004, Ed Sanders, Tales of beatnik glory:

     […] playing eight-ball while zonked, chugging beer with locals […]

• zonk
• zonk out

• “zonked (out) adj.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present

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