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THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND

Definition: THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND

THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND

1. Unsteady from drink. [Sailors' Slang]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Drunkenness

Inter pocula; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the table.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND

Expression using "THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND": be three sheets in the wind. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND

Language Translations for "THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

tökrészeg (blind drunk, blotto, canned, drunk to the world, have three sheets in the wind, sozzled, speechless, to be sewed up, to be three sheets in the wind, to be way-out). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eethray eetsshay inay ethay indway

   

Romanian

  

beat lulea. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Bibliography


  

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