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[Jonathan Lighter]

Not in OED.

zorched adj. 1. very fatigued; exhausted.

 1964-65 _Comstar_ (Harry E. Guppy High School, Windsor, Ont.) 21:
F[avorite] S[aying]: I’m zorched.

2. drunk.

1966-69 Larry Woiwode _What I’m Going to Do, I Think_ (N.Y.: Farrar, 1969)
18: Smashed, gooned, juiced, bombed, stoned, zorched.

1970 Press-Democrat (Santa Rosa, Calif.) (Sept. 13) (Medley Mag.) 15:
Stewed, stoned, swacked…zorched.

1982 Longview [Tex.] News-Journal (Aug. 1) 1-E: We stayed zorched the whole
time.

1994 Business Week (July 25) 6: Want to get zorched on vodka?

JL
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