Blotto

Quick meaning: Blotto is an adjective meaning (informal) (Very) drunk or intoxicated.

Meaning

(informal) (Very) drunk or intoxicated.

More Meanings

1. (informal) A person who is (very) drunk or intoxicated.
2. (art) An artwork created using blots of ink or paint.
3. (intransitive, informal) To become or cause to become (very) drunk or intoxicated.
4. (intransitive, informal) To be annihilated or destroyed; to be blotted out.
5. (nautical, obsolete) On Sulawesi: a hollowed-out tree trunk used as a boat.
6. (biochemistry) A reagent made from non-fat dry milk, phosphate buffered saline, and sodium azide, which is used to block protein binding sites for laboratory techniques such as blots and the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).

Example Sentences

Remember, Blanche DuBois was a blotto and her trip to New Orleans didn't get her anywhere. Nuff said.

I stayed home for a couple days and got blotto four times. I did the usual bad drunk routine; cried a lot, moaned about my life.

Dear old Squiffy was always rather a lad for the wassail-bowl. When I met him in Paris, I remember, he was quite tolerably blotto.

I drank a lot of wine – and afterwards, at Les Vikings, Akvavit – and was completely blotto (well, not completely, but enough to talk a lot and get the Hungarian talking and not be bored).

Word Forms

• blottos
• blottoes
• blottoing
• blottoed

Synonyms for blotto

Depending on context, synonyms include adrip, arseholed, bedrunken, befuddled, besotted, besotten.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drunk, intoxicated, tipsy, soused, inebriated, squiffy.

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