oiled

English

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Verb

oiled

1. simple past and past participle of oil

Adjective

oiled (comparative more oiled, superlative most oiled)

1. 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

2. (slang) Drunk. Usually in conjunction with an adverb of degree.

   Synonyms: oiled up, lubricated, lubed, lubed up; see also Thesaurus:drunk

   I got well oiled last night.

   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 149:

     It appeared that, being in his own words still considerably "oiled" on his arrival, Bowles's parson had received him into his house with strong disfavour, and, what was worse, put him through a species of inquisition regarding the condition of his soul that had, to again quote Cripps, "nearly sent him mad."

   • 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 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] 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.

Derived terms

• nonoiled
• oiled silk
• unoiled
• well-oiled
• well-oiled machine

Related terms

• oiler

Anagrams

• oldie, eolid, Delio, deoil