Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Treated or covered with oil.
- adjective Slang Intoxicated; drunk.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil.
- adjective slang Drunk; inebriated.
- adjective silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.
- adjective [slang] very drink.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past and past participle of
oil . - adjective Of a machine, supplied with oil so as to allow smooth operation.
- adjective slang
drunk . Usually in conjunction with well.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective treated with oil
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Examples
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The naked blade sat on the ground instead of in oiled leathers.
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And inside, wrapped in oiled silk, yellowed with age and worn and thumbed, was the original scrap of newspaper containing the quotation from Thoreau.
The Night-Born 2010
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Solomons and New Guinea who carried their god about them, wrapped in oiled paper.
Chun Ah Chun 2010
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I imagined my pedicured feet, with their rough skin oiled and massaged to a comforting softness.
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I imagined my pedicured feet, with their rough skin oiled and massaged to a comforting softness.
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And inside, wrapped in oiled silk, yellowed with age and worn and thumbed, was the original scrap of newspaper containing the quotation from Thoreau.
The Night Born 1913
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Solomons and New Guinea who carried their god about them, wrapped in oiled paper.
Chun Ah Chun 1912
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And inside, wrapped in oiled silk, yellowed with age and worn and thumbed, was the original scrap of newspaper containing the quotation from Thoreau.
The Night-Born 1911
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Only on one point there is universal agreement, let the machine be working either in the right direction or the wrong -- so long as it is working it must be oiled, that is a necessity of machine-life, so to speak -- the man or convict must be _fed_.
Six Years in the Prisons of England A Merchant - Anonymous
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They hold an edge a lot longer, and though the metal rusts if not oiled, that is the only drawback and is an infinitely tiny one at that.
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