sewed up

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Verb

sewed up

  1. simple past of sew up

Adjective

sewed up (comparative more sewed up, superlative most sewed up)

  1. (slang, archaic) Drunk.
    • 1840, Charles Fenno Hoffman, Greyslaer: A Romance of the Mohawk, volume 2, page 198:
      Why, zounds! the infernal rascal's dead-drunk in earnest; sewed up completely []

References

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary