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(lĭt) pronunciation
v.
A past tense and a past participle of light1. See Usage Note at light1.

adj.
Informal. Drunk or drugged. Often used with up.


lit2 (lĭt) pronunciation
v.
A past tense and a past participle of light2.


lit3 (lĭt) pronunciation
n. Informal
Literature: enjoyed my course in French lit.


adjective

  1. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor. besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal cockeyed, stewed. Slang blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheetsintothe wind. See drugs/temperance.
  2. Stupefied, intoxicated, or otherwise influenced by the taking of drugs. drugged. Informal doped. Slang high, hopped-up, potted, spaced-out, stoned, turned-on, wiped-out, zonked. See drugs/temperance.

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: adj. - Set afire or burning; Provided with artificial light.

pronunciation A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit. — Francois Rabelais

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adjective
adjective

Drunk or under the influence of a drug; often followed by up. (1914 —) .
E. Hyams Some of the lads a bit lit, eh? (1949).



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