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airlocked

語源

Share (2005) suggests that the adjective comes from the past participle of the verb airlock (“to stop suddenly”),[1] which Macaffee (1996) says is “from the cut-out in a diesel engine if air enters the fuel system”.[2]

形容詞

airlocked (comparative more airlocked, superlative most airlocked)

  1. (Northern Ireland, Ulster) Extremely drunk.

同意語

参照

  1. ^ Share, Bernard (2005) Slanguage: A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English in Ireland, Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, page 3: “airlock [vb.] (Ulster). Stop in one’s tracks. Hence airlocked [p. part. as adj.]. The worse for drink.”
  2. ^ Macafee, Carolyn I. (1996) A Concise Ulster Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press
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