Definitions

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

  • adjective Stupefied from ingestion of or withdrawal from a drug.
  • adjective Addicted to a drug.
  • adjective Severely debilitated from long-term drug use.
  • adjective Physically or emotionally exhausted.

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  • adjective slang Experiencing withdrawal symptoms of an addiction.
  • adjective Widely spaced.

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  • adjective addicted to a drug

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Examples

  • The third piece, on a prominent Sunset Boulevard billboard, depicted a strung-out Mickey and Minnie Mouse partying with the advertisement's model.

    Banksy Billboard On Sunset Boulevard Removed The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • The third piece, on a prominent Sunset Boulevard billboard, depicted a strung-out Mickey and Minnie Mouse partying with the advertisement's model.

    Banksy Billboard On Sunset Boulevard Removed The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

  • Braddock approached the Monongahela with a force superior to what the French and Indians could bring to bear against him, despite an impossibly strung-out supply line.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • For the most part his Holmes was a strung-out, drug-addled, hyper-neurotic Freudian case study, but then there was that sword fight on the top of the cars of a speeding train.

    Holmes contra Holmes 2009

  • I'm sorry, but that Duchess would never have had that hallucination in a million years, no matter how strung-out and disoriented and agonized she was.

    The Duchess of Malfi deliasherman 2010

  • They loaded his calendar with meetings, endless meetings, with nervous, strung-out entrepreneurs who wanted reassurance and guidance and, more than anything, money.

    Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011

  • Braddock approached the Monongahela with a force superior to what the French and Indians could bring to bear against him, despite an impossibly strung-out supply line.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Cohen is skillful indeed in deploying this language, and if readers are able to accustom themselves to Laster's strung-out, stop/start way of summoning up those events that have culminated in this night at Carnegie Hall, they will surely find themselves enjoying the jokes, the deliberate or not-so-deliberate malapropisms, the puns, the occasional passages of real eloquence.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • And another, and another, until I was basically a strung-out junkie, “chasing the dragon,” trying to re-create the original euphoria of the first hit, but needing more every time to even come close.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

  • I'm sorry, but that Duchess would never have had that hallucination in a million years, no matter how strung-out and disoriented and agonized she was.

    The Duchess of Malfi deliasherman 2010

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