half seas over love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Well on the way; pretty far advanced.
  • Pretty far gone in drink; half drunk; tipsy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • Slang: used only predicatively. Half drunk.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective slang Partly drunk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective British informal for `intoxicated'

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  • "Almost drunk."

    September 5, 2008

  • Ha!

    September 5, 2008