"Stoned" ???

[joggerjayne]

Who ever uses the expression "stoned" to mean "intoxicated" ?

Anyone ?

There's a clue in today's crossword ...

10(A). Severely punished for being drunk (6)

I'm guessing the answer is "STONED", but seriously ...

... you'd only say someone was "stoned" if they'd taken some other drugs, surely ?

Presumably, "RATTED" doesn't work, because it's not a punishment ... except in the book "1984" when the Thought Police have the cage with the rats in it.

[joggerjayne]

waffle waffle waffle blaahdy blaahdy blaah ...

[Frank97]

Lashed?

[Safiya]

stoned is stoned..... never ever heard anyone say stoned and mean drunk, smashed maybe or hammered or trashed but not stoned

[redman41]

Plastered or Pie Eyed !

[joggerjayne]

Hey ... "LASHED" would've worked (although I think the 4th letter is "N").

Well, I'm glad it's not just me who thinks that "stoned" is just wrong.

[redman41]

I don't have a drinking problem
I drink. I get drunk. I fall down. No problem.

[joggerjayne]

Who said that ?

=0)

[redman41]

Not me JJ.....I'm too drunk to remember ! lol

[mojay]

stoned = drunk - yes that's what I'd assume -

[Euphemia]

stoned means p'ssed!

[joggerjayne]

he he

[redman41]

You've never been truly drunk until you've had to use a barstool as a walker to get home.

[joggerjayne]

"he he" was to RATTER

Okay, so ... is this some sort of regional thing ???

[jno]

note first definition

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stoned

[mojay]

regional - I don't know. I'm born and bred a moonraker but now based in West Midlands

[Prudie]

Stoned means drugged to me but my parents (both now dead) used stoned to mean drunk

[boxtops]

Prudie - you got in first - I would have said exactly the same.

[joggerjayne]

Age thing, then ??

[Prudie]

Exactly JJ!

[Mosaic]

Certainly as a youngster back in the early mesolithic, stoned was used to mean drunk as well as drugged - but one simply didn't come across drugged people.
It is used in this context in Frank Sinatra's 'Did you evah'.