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English
Pronunciation
Adjective
punch drunk (not comparable)
- Dizzy or confused due to repeat blows to the head.
- Synonyms: out on one's feet, slaphappy
The fighter looked harmlessly punch drunk, but he was only faking and suddenly threw a vicious, skillful, blow.
- Behaving in a bewildered, or dazed manner.
2020 December 2, Nigel Harris, “Comment: The UK's worst crisis since 1709”, in Rail, page 3:We've become so accustomed to the word 'billions' over the last ten months that we've become punch drunk about just how much the COVID-19 pandemic has really cost us all.
Translations
dizzy from blows to the head