primed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹaɪmd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪmd

Verb

primed

1. simple past and past participle of prime

Adjective

primed (not comparable)

1. Prepared for use or action.
2. (colloquial) Approaching a state of drunkenness.
   • 2012, Roger L. Weston, The Domino Coincidence:

     Get Andrea well primed, but not drunk.

Derived terms

• deprimed
• nonprimed
• osmoprimed
• preprimed
• unprimed

Translations

(colloquial) Approaching a state of drunkenness. — see tipsy

References

• (approaching drunkenness): John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary