Airlocked
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of airlock form-of, participle, past
- 1 Equipped with an airlock.
"While Flora and Doc waited their turn through the airlocked tube to the city, Simianoids walked past in a column of fives"
- 2 Blocked or non-functional due to an air lock.
- 3 Extremely drunk. Northern-Ireland, Ulster
"It was sporadically interrupted by Sam standing up and spreading his arms high and wide to exclaim, 'I'm fuckin' airlocked! I'm fuckin' airlocked!' He was letting everyone know that he was indeed quite drunk."
Synonyms
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More examples"While Flora and Doc waited their turn through the airlocked tube to the city, Simianoids walked past in a column of fives"
Etymology
Share (2005) suggests that the adjective comes from the past participle of the verb airlock (“to stop suddenly”), which Macaffee (1996) says is “from the cut-out in a diesel engine if air enters the fuel system”.
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