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

See also: crooked, daft [Brit, informal], drunk, dumb, foolish, gone, imbecile, imbecilic, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], skunked [informal], stupid

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