Definify.com

Definition 2024


three_sheets_to_the_wind

three sheets to the wind

English

Adjective

three sheets to the wind (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Drunk.
    That late in the evening, he was three sheets to the wind and had long since stopped making sense.

Synonyms

References

  • Smyth, William Henry; Belcher, Edward (1867). The sailor’s word-book: An alphabetical digest of nautical terms, including some more especially military and scientific ... as well as archaisms of early voyagers, etc.. London: Blackie and Son. p. 680