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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Showing signs of brain damage caused by repeated blows to the head. Used especially of a boxer.
  • adjective Behaving in a bewildered, confused, or dazed manner.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of punch drunk.

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  • adjective dazed from or as if from repeated blows

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Examples

  • The UAW's out-of-touch leadership is so punch-drunk from the 2008 collapse of the U.S. auto industry that it has lost touch not only with what is good for the American economy as a whole, but with what is good for rank-and-file auto workers.

    Ian Fletcher: Stop the Korea Free Trade Agreement! Ian Fletcher 2011

  • The UAW's out-of-touch leadership is so punch-drunk from the 2008 collapse of the U.S. auto industry that it has lost touch not only with what is good for the American economy as a whole, but with what is good for rank-and-file auto workers.

    Ian Fletcher: Stop the Korea Free Trade Agreement! Ian Fletcher 2011

  • They went a goal up early on courtesy of the outstanding Keith Andrews and plundered three more against tiring and increasingly punch-drunk opposition.

    Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland | Euro 2012 play-off match report 2011

  • The UAW's out-of-touch leadership is so punch-drunk from the 2008 collapse of the U.S. auto industry that it has lost touch not only with what is good for the American economy as a whole, but with what is good for rank-and-file auto workers.

    Ian Fletcher: Stop the Korea Free Trade Agreement! Ian Fletcher 2011

  • Arsenal were holding for the final bell, like the punch-drunk boxer, when Sidwell, who had also returned to Fulham's starting XI, headed home from close-range.

    Fulham 2-1 Arsenal | Premier League match report 2012

  • Something about that anger got through the punch-drunk fuzz inside my head.

    Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

  • In those days everyone but Gene was exhausted—sometimes punch-drunk on three hours of sleep a night, nodding off on the subway coming home from Lenox Hill or staggering bleary-eyed in clogs and scrubs from Beth Israel or CFC.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • This wicked, sexy Irishman made her feel punch-drunk.

    Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

  • The first brutal set of Andy Murray v Novak Djokovic had left me punch-drunk, and somewhere in the second I'd forgotten how to breathe.

    Pain of watching sport that I will never die happy | Emma John 2011

  • If the Worst Happens: If your dog starts stumbling like a punch-drunk fighter or seems dazed and confused, death could be near.

    Summer Gun Dog Training: The Dangers of Heat Stroke 2009

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