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English
Etymology
The "not unhinged" sense was created as a back-formation from unhinged.
Pronunciation
Adjective
hinged (not comparable)
- Affixed by a hinge, as a door.
1946 November and December, “New L.M.S.R. Royal Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:There are hinged side buffers, and the centre coupler also is hinged to enable the vehicles to work with ordinary stock.
- (slang) Extremely high on drugs.
- (of a postage stamp) Affixed with a stamp hinge
- (slang, figurative) Sane; not unhinged.
Derived terms
Translations
affixed with a stamp hinge
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Verb
hinged
- simple past and past participle of hinge
Anagrams
Estonian
Noun
hinged
- nominative plural of hing