dead drunk
Very drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were dead drunk!
dead drunk
very intoxicated; totally inebriated. They were both dead drunk. They could only lie there and snore. Marty stumbled off the bar stood dead drunk.
dead drunk
Completely intoxicated, as in I can't remember a thing about last night; I was dead drunk. This phrase, first recorded in 1599, alludes to the immobility and insensibility of actual death.
dead drunk
mod. alcohol intoxicated; totally inebriated. They were both dead drunk. They could only lie there and snore.