ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Steamboats

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Steamboats is an adjective meaning (UK, Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

Meaning

(UK, Ireland, slang) Drunk; intoxicated.

More Meanings

  1. plural of steamboat

Example Sentences

The truth is that nobody remembered; they had all been absolutely steamboats.
Somebody absolutely steamboats he says on sweet warm wine swigged plaincover from a paper bag squats in a puddle with nothing to sell […]
By the weekend we were off it and out on the lash, living it up in the VIP section of Annabelle's nightclub and getting absolutely steamboats. There's only one thing better than a glass of Champagne – a bottle!
Joe and The Tongue especially are absolutely steamboats by the time we reach the Niccy, and the 'bouncers' – furtive damp chemistry teachers on an ego trip – turn us all sneeringly away in their clean-spitting accents:

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fumes, steamers, vapors, vapours, stoated, paralytic.

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