See potshot on Wiktionary
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],
"word": "ripe"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "ripped"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "rolling"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "rubbered"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sauced"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sauced up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "scammered"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "schloshed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "schnockered"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "screwed"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
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"word": "scuttered"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sewed up"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "shedded"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "shellacked"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "shicker"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Australia",
"New-Zealand"
],
"word": "shickered"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"US",
"taboo"
],
"word": "shitty"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "skunked"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "slammed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "slarmied"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "slizzard"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sloppy drunk"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sloshed"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "smashed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "snockered"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "snookered"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "snozzled"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "snuffy"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "soaken"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sodden"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sotted"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sottish"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Navy",
"US",
"slang"
],
"word": "souped-up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "soused"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sozzled"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sozzly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "spanceled"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "spannered"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "spiffed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "splashed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "spongy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "sprung"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "squiffed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Britain",
"Ireland",
"slang"
],
"word": "steamboats"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "stewed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "stinking"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "stinko"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"UK",
"slang"
],
"word": "stoated"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "stoned"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"word": "stonkered"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "stotious"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Scotland",
"obsolete"
],
"word": "strut"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "swacked"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "tanked"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "tanked up"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "temulent"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "temulentive"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "three sheets in the wind"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "three sheets to the wind"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "throwed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "tight as a tick"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "tight"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "tilted"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "tippled"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "tipsy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Britain",
"euphemistic",
"humorous"
],
"word": "tired and emotional"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "toasted"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "top-heavy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"idiomatic",
"rare"
],
"word": "top-heavy with drink"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "toping"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "trashed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "tuned"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Britain",
"taboo"
],
"word": "twatfaced"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "twisted"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "wastey"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Britain"
],
"word": "wazzed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"Britain"
],
"word": "wazzocked"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "well-oiled"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "wellied"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "wet"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "whittled"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "withered"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "wobbly"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "woozy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "worse for liquor"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"tags": [
"euphemistic"
],
"word": "worse for wear"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "wrecked"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "zoned"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "zonked"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "zooted"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "zorched"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:drunk",
"word": "zotzed"
}
],
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang"
]
}
],
"word": "potshot"
}
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