oiled

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oiled

  1. simple past and past participle of oil

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oiled (comparative more oiled, superlative most oiled)

  1. Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
    Synonyms: oily, oleose
    an oiled machine
    a person's oiled body
  2. (slang) Drunk. Usually in conjunction with well.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
    I got well oiled last night.
    • 1934, James T. Farrell, chapter 14, in The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan:
      "Say, was he oiled when the accident happened?"
      "No, he was on the wagon again. …"
    • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 245:
      You could tell he wasn’t tired at all, though. He was pretty oiled up, for one thing.

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