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 anaddiction . - adjective Widely spaced.
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- adjective addicted to a drug
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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