Tanked up

v.

Heard in Galway and Dublin

To be heavily intoxicated with alcohol.

In use

I was so tanked up yesterday I missed the match entirely!

Posh English

I was so thoroughly inebriated yesterday that I missed the sporting fixture entirely.

Same phrase, other counties

  • HammeredTo become heavily intoxicated with alcohol.
  • MelodginExtremely drunk or heavily intoxicated from alcohol.
  • MouldyExtremely drunk or heavily intoxicated from alcohol.
  • Out of me barnetTo be heavily intoxicated on alcohol or drugs; out of one's head.