oiled
English
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Verb
[edit]oiled
- simple past and past participle of oil
Adjective
[edit]oiled (comparative more oiled, superlative most oiled)
- Covered in, or supplied with, oil.
- Synonyms: oily, oleose
- Hypernym: lubricated (contextually hypernymous)
- Hyponyms: oiled up, well-oiled
- an oiled machine
- a person's oiled body
- (slang) Drunk. Usually in conjunction with well.
- Synonyms: oiled up, lubricated, lubed, lubed up; see also 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.