Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Shaped or worked with a metalworker's hammer and often showing the marks of these tools.
- adjective Slang Drunk or intoxicated.
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- adjective slang
drunk - verb Simple past of
hammer .
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- adjective shaped or worked with a hammer and often showing hammer marks
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Examples
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The field getting most hammered is construction, and manufacturing is actually leading the jobs recovery.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) – Sen. John McCain hammered the Obama administration Friday for its decision to try accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other suspected terrorists in a civilian court in New York.
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Much as Reagan tied his agenda to the notion that big government is “the problem,” Obama should have hammered from the first day at the notion that government had been representing moneyed interests in recent decades, rather than the voters.
Matthew Yglesias » You Can’t Create Jobs by “Focusing” on the Economy 2010
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"Sen. John McCain hammered the Obama administration" ...?
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Rain hammered the roof of the car as she sat outside the shopping mall and she lingered.
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The traditional Arabists were hammered from the postmodernist left for their “Orientalism,” as Edward Said famously alleged in 1978.
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The traditional Arabists were hammered from the postmodernist left for their “Orientalism,” as Edward Said famously alleged in 1978.
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The traditional Arabists were hammered from the postmodernist left for their “Orientalism,” as Edward Said famously alleged in 1978.
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The traditional Arabists were hammered from the postmodernist left for their “Orientalism,” as Edward Said famously alleged in 1978.
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Saddam Hussein hammered nails into their fingers and hands.
bilby commented on the word hammered
here the moon-bathed night
concurs with living things
I try to grasp its circle
its hammered face shies away
falls in the cistern's belly
it trembles on the black surface
then dissolves
I cannot drink that water
a cock crows just at midnight
to a morning which knows no farewells
those languid lands awake
from a long sleep's secret
- Amina Saïd, 'I Introduce Myself to the World', translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker.
November 10, 2008
kewpid commented on the word hammered
The most august legal minds of Australia, during argument in Joslyn v Berryman (2003) 214 CLR 552; 2003 HCA 34:
CALLINAN J: Mr Jackson, it seems to me that clearly the people at the party, including Ms Joslyn and Mr Berryman, went out with the intention of getting drunk.
MR D F JACKSON QC: It would be a big night, your Honour, big night.
CALLINAN J: With the intention of getting drunk and they fulfilled that intention.
MR JACKSON: Well, your Honour, young people sometimes——
KIRBY J: I just think “drunk�? is a label and I am a little worried about—it is not necessary to put that label. It is just that they were sufficiently affected by alcohol to affect their capacity to drive.
MR JACKSON: Yes.
KIRBY J: “A drunk�? has all sorts of baggage with it.
HAYNE J: Perhaps “hammered�? is the more modern expression, Mr Jackson, or “well and truly hammered�?.
MR JACKSON: I am indebted to your Honour.
KIRBY J: I do not know any of these expressions.
McHUGH J: No, no. Justice Hayne must live a very different life to the sort of life we lead.
KIRBY J: I have never heard that word “hammered�? before, never. Not before this very minute.
December 15, 2008
yarb commented on the word hammered
Excellent. I very much enjoy your despatches from the legal world, kewpid.
December 16, 2008