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Adjective: cockeyed  'kók,Id
  1. Turned or twisted toward one side
    "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all cockeyed";
    - askew, awry, lopsided, wonky, skew-whiff [Brit]
     
  2. Incongruous; inviting ridicule
    "that's a cockeyed idea";
    - absurd, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous
     
  3. Very drunk
    "I had travelling money and got cockeyed in the bar downstairs";
    - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, blitzed, mullered [Brit], trolleyed [Brit], liquored up [N. Amer], bombed, pickled, wasted, trashed, legless [Brit], tanked up, lit, fried [N. Amer], stewed, hammered, stinko, steaming, paralytic [Brit], juiced [N. Amer], stonkered [Austral, NZ], bladdered [Brit], out of it [Brit], three sheets to the wind, bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

See also: crooked, daft, drunk, dumb, foolish, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, stupid

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