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# blotto

«blotto» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very drunk** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (blotto — slang, old-fashioned)

### meaning for a pupil

(slang, UK) Very drunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

It appears in comic stories and rough or old-fashioned British talk about adults who have drunk too much alcohol. In safety lessons, being drunk is dangerous and alcohol is not for children. Phrases: get blotto, completely blotto.

### examples

- (slang) Uncle Fred was completely blotto at the wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x1)
- (slang) They got blotto and had to be taken home in a taxi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x2)
- In the old comedy, the butler found his master blotto in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x3)
- (slang) He was so blotto he could not stand up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x4)
- Getting blotto is dangerous for anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x5)
- The story's silly lord was always blotto by dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x6)

### note

Slang and a bit old-fashioned; the neutral words are drunk or intoxicated (formal). Not a polite word.

### In the corpora

- ["Blotto" is old British slang for very drunk.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/22/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blotto» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.