plastered

[plas-terd, plah-sterd] /ˈplæs tərd, ˈplɑ stərd/
adjective, Slang.
1.
drunk.
Origin
1910-15; plaster + -ed2

plaster

[plas-ter, plah-ster] /ˈplæs tər, ˈplɑ stər/
noun
1.
a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
2.
powdered gypsum.
3.
plaster of Paris.
4.
a solid or semisolid preparation spread upon cloth, plastic, or other material and applied to the body, especially for some healing purpose.
verb (used with object)
5.
to cover (walls, ceilings, etc.) with plaster.
6.
to treat with gypsum or plaster of Paris.
7.
to lay flat like a layer of plaster.
8.
to daub or fill with plaster or something similar.
9.
to apply a plaster to (the body, a wound, etc.).
10.
to overspread with something, especially thickly or excessively:
a wall plastered with posters.
11.
Informal.
  1. to defeat decisively; trounce; drub.
  2. to knock down or injure, as by a blow or beating.
  3. to inflict serious damage or injury on by heavy bombing, shelling, or other means of attack.
Origin
before 1000; Middle English, Old English < Medieval Latin plastrum plaster (both medical and building senses), aphetic variant of Latin emplastrum < Greek émplastron salve, alteration of émplaston, neuter of émplastos daubed; see em-2, -plast
Related forms
plasterer, noun
plasteriness, noun
plasterlike, plastery, adjective
replaster, verb (used with object)
unplaster, verb (used with object)
Examples from the web for plastered
  • The orderly kitchen cabinets, made of maple-veneered plywood, act as a visual anchor for the red plastered walls.
  • The outer walls of the dwellings were plastered with a smooth coat of mud, and the upper facades painted creamy white.
  • He rose and went to look out, but the west windows were so plastered with snow that they were opaque.
  • Their necks were marbled with sweat stains, and their flanks were plastered with the white dust that rose at every step.
  • As soon as the ceremony has been performed, the tree is bound tightly up and the fissure plastered over with mud or clay.
  • It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.
  • Wildlife perished when muddy waves plastered the shoreline and acid poisoned the water.
  • We spoke softly to one another, and soon shook hands, our grey-plastered wrists held briefly above the water.
  • And so it has proved: all manner of meanings have been and continue to be plastered onto the zombie.
  • The building had curved, roughly plastered concrete walls and a swelling roof that resembled a nun's wimple.
British Dictionary definitions for plastered

plastered

/ˈplɑːstəd/
adjective
1.
(slang) intoxicated; drunk

plaster

/ˈplɑːstə/
noun
1.
a mixture of lime, sand, and water, sometimes stiffened with hair or other fibres, that is applied to the surface of a wall or ceiling as a soft paste that hardens when dry
2.
(Brit & Austral, NZ) an adhesive strip of material, usually medicated, for dressing a cut, wound, etc
3.
short for mustard plaster, plaster of Paris
verb
4.
to coat (a wall, ceiling, etc) with plaster
5.
(transitive) to apply like plaster: she plastered make-up on her face
6.
(transitive) to cause to lie flat or to adhere
7.
(transitive) to apply a plaster cast to
8.
(transitive) (slang) to strike or defeat with great force
Derived Forms
plasterer, noun
plastery, adjective
Word Origin
Old English, from Medieval Latin plastrum medicinal salve, building plaster, via Latin from Greek emplastron curative dressing, from em- + plassein to form
Word Origin and History for plastered
adj.

"coated with plaster," late 14c., past participle adjective from plaster (v.). Slang meaning "very drunk" attested by 1912, perhaps from plaster in medical sense of "to apply a remedy to; to soothe" (see plaster (n.)).

plaster

n.

late Old English plaster "medicinal application," from Vulgar Latin plastrum, shortened from Latin emplastrum "a plaster" (in the medical as well as the building sense), from Greek emplastron "salve, plaster" (used by Galen instead of more usual emplaston), noun use of neuter of emplastos "daubed on," from en- "on" + plastos "molded," from plassein "to mold" (see plasma). The building construction material is first recorded in English c.1300, via Old French plastre, from the same source, and in early use the English word often had the French spelling.

v.

"to coat with plaster," early 14c., from plaster (n.) and partly Old French plastrier "to cover with plaster" (Modern French plâtrer), from plastre (see plaster (n.). Related: Plastered; plastering. Figurative use from c.1600. Meaning "to bomb (a target) heavily" is first recorded 1915. Sports sense of "to defeat decisively" is from 1919.

plastered in Medicine

plaster plas·ter (plās'tər)
n.

  1. Plaster of Paris.

  2. A pastelike mixture applied to a part of the body for healing or cosmetic purposes.

Slang definitions & phrases for plastered

plastered

adjective

Drunk (1912+)


plaster

noun
  1. A banknote, esp a one-dollar bill: If you need a couple of plasters until Ed gets out, tell me (1940s+)
  2. A person who surreptitiously follows another; shadow; tail: He probably knew he had a plaster by this time (1940s+)
  3. A subpoena or summons; arrest warrant (1950s+)
verb

To cover or apply generously: They plastered the city with leaflets (1585+)

[money sense fr shinplaster, an early 19th-century term for ''currency of little value or very small denomination'']


Encyclopedia Article for plastered

plaster

a pasty composition (as of lime or gypsum, water, and sand) that hardens on drying and is used for coating walls, ceilings, and partitions

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