souped

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souped (comparative more souped, superlative most souped)

1. (New England, slang) Excited.
2. In trouble or in difficulty. (Compare in the soup.)
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, section II:

     Luck I had the presenee [sic] of mind to dive into Manning's or I was souped.

3. (slang) Intoxicated, drunk; (by extension) high.
   • 2012 08, Tammy Tucker, The River Bottoms, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 166:

     […] souped to the gills. He had been drinking with his buddies while momma lay in a hospital bed. He was face down on the floor laughing and singing.

   • 2018, Cate Kennedy, Dark Roots, Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, →ISBN, page 26:

     'There's always morphine,' he said, and I imagined myself, in a bed crisp as blank paper, tubes up my nose and in my arms, souped to the eyeballs on morphine and trying to tell my friends what I thought of them.

• supe up
• souped-up

souped

1. simple past and past participle of soup

• does up, doupes, pseudo, psuedo, psuedo-, pseudo-