crocked

adjective

ˈkräkt 

: drunk sense 1a

Synonyms

• besotted
• blasted [slang]
• blind
• blitzed [slang]
• blotto [slang]
• bombed
• boozy
• canned [slang]
• cockeyed
• drunk
• drunken
• fried
• gassed
• hammered [slang]
• high
• impaired
• inebriate
• inebriated
• intoxicated
• juiced [slang]
• lit
• lit up
• loaded [slang]
• looped
• oiled [slang]
• pickled
• pie-eyed
• plastered
• potted [slang]
• ripped [slang]
• sloshed [slang]
• smashed [slang]
• sottish
• soused
• sozzled
• squiffed
• squiffy
• stewed
• stiff
• stinking [slang]
• stoned
• tanked [slang]
• tiddly [chiefly British]
• tight
• tipsy
• wasted [slang]
• wet
• wiped out [slang]

Examples of crocked in a Sentence

He was half-crocked when he came home.

she found that after only three drinks she would be completely crocked

Recent Examples on the Web

An arriving officer arrested the Parma Heights resident, who was crocked, for disorderly conduct. —John Benson, cleveland, 10 Nov. 2021

Although the treaty promised an annuity, payments were often late or siphoned off to crocked traders. —Letter Writers, Twin Cities, 8 Aug. 2019

Spain coach Julen Lopetegui has given a positive update on crocked defender Dani Carvajal, refusing to rule the Real Madrid right-back out of his World Cup plans. —SI.com, 29 May 2018

However, the crocked 28-year-old’s contract is set to run out at the end of the 2018-19 campaign, with the Germany international not opposed to plying his trade elsewhere. —SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017

Walker has five assists already this season, impressing massively in a right wing back role for Guardiola, whilst Delph has added another string to his bow whilst playing at left back as deputy for the crocked Benjamin Mendy. —SI.com, 2 Nov. 2017

Fast forward six years and this precocious gem that the English media had so emphatically hyped up now finds himself crocked, stagnated and plying his trade sporadically in youth and cup fixtures. —SI.com, 21 Oct. 2017

By the end of some drinking-club evenings most of the participants were so crocked that Rudy might as well have been pouring grape Gatorade. —Patrick Cooke, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017

James is set to take Danny Drinkwater's place who is unlikely to be fit due to a thigh strain, while King will replace the crocked summer signing Vicente Iborra. —SI.com, 10 Aug. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1927, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for crocked

• concoct
• deadlocked
• landlocked
• padlocked
• unblocked
• unlocked
• balked
• blocked
• chalked
• clocked
• cocked
• docked