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English
Etymology
From Yiddish שיכּור (shiker, “drunk”), from Hebrew שיכּור.
Pronunciation
Verb
shickered
- simple past and past participle of shicker
Adjective
shickered (comparative more shickered, superlative most shickered)
- (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Drunk.
1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 458:‘I'm shikkered. I've never been so shikkered before. Do you know how I know? Because,’ he started giggling, ‘because I don't normally fucking swear.’
1994, Annamarie Jagose, In Translation, page 13:'You're shickered, dear.' She is coolly diagnostic. 'You know what you're like when you're shickered.'
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