coked-up

adjective

¦kōkt-ˈəp 

variants or less commonly coked

¦kōkt 

informal

: high on cocaine

Depending on whom you listen to, he was either too lazy, too broke or too coked-up to go out on assignment …

—Anna Quindlen, Newsweek, 2 June 2003

Two men, two friends, enter a place of business, both—to use the vernacular—coked to the gills.

—Lucius Shepard, Playboy, September 1986

Word History

First Known Use

1924, in the meaning defined above

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