Usually means: Extremely intoxicated, beyond normal limits.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. (as) drunk as a skunk, drunk as a skunk: Merriam-Webster
  2. drunk as a skunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. drunk as a skunk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. drunk as a skunk: Wiktionary
  5. Drunk As A Skunk: A to Z list of the most popular idioms
  6. Drunk as a Skunk: The Word Detective
  7. drunk as a skunk: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. drunk as a skunk: Legal dictionary

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  1. drunk as a skunk: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. drunk as a skunk: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. drunk as a skunk: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (simile, colloquial) Highly inebriated.

Similar:
tight as a tick, stinking, drunklike, inebriated, tipsy, tight, blind drunk, sodden, intoxicated-like, keyed, more...

Opposite:
sober, abstinent, teetotal

Types:
plastered, wasted, trashed, sloshed, sozzled, blitzed, hammered, smashed, more...

Phrases:
as drunk as a skunk, more...

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Similar:
tight as a tick, stinking, drunklike, inebriated, tipsy, tight, blind drunk, sodden, intoxicated-like, keyed, more...

Opposite:
sober, abstinent, teetotal

Types:
plastered, wasted, trashed, sloshed, sozzled, blitzed, hammered, smashed, more...

Phrases:
as drunk as a skunk, more...



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