Usually means: Very drunk or heavily intoxicated.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word half seas over:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. half-seas over: Merriam-Webster
  2. half seas over: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. half seas over: Collins English Dictionary
  4. half-seas-over: Vocabulary.com
  5. half seas over: Wordnik
  6. half seas over: Wiktionary
  7. half-seas over: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Half seas over, half-seas-over, half-seas over, half seas over: Dictionary.com
  9. half seas over: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Half seas over: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. half-seas-over: Rhymezone
  12. Half seas over: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. HALF SEAS OVER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  14. Half-seas Over: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. half-seas-over, half seas over: FreeDictionary.org
  16. half-seas-over: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. half-seas-over, half-seas over, half seas over: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. half seas over: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Half Seas Over: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (half seas over)

▸ adjective:  (slang, dated) Slightly drunk, or, possibly in meiosis, very drunk.

Similar:
drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, steaming, sloshed to the gills, souped-up, soaked, roaring drunk, overdrunken, one over the eight, more...

Opposite:
sober, sober-minded, clear-headed, abstinent
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Similar:
drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, steaming, sloshed to the gills, souped-up, soaked, roaring drunk, overdrunken, one over the eight, more...

Opposite:
sober, sober-minded, clear-headed, abstinent



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