cabbaged

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of cabbage.

   The tailor cabbaged the leftover fabric and sold it for a tidy profit.

   Workers cabbaged small tools from the factory floor for years.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both the past tense and the participle of a verb with several lives. Only the pilfering sense is transitive, so only it can be passive: the offcuts were cabbaged. The intransitive senses, a plant forming its head or a person idling the day away, take have instead: the plants had cabbaged. After be, the same form may instead be the slang word for very drunk, so context decides.

2. 2
   adjectiveslangBritish

   Extremely drunk, to the point of being barely able to function.

   Two pitchers in, half the table was already cabbaged.

   She came home cabbaged after the office Christmas party.

   Similarhammered, wasted, plastered, smashed, legless

   Oppositesober

   Note

   British slang, built simply from cabbage plus -ed. It usually follows a verb of being, as in Irvine Welsh's Filth (1998): "I was cabbaged." Hugh Collins's No Smoke (2001) adds up: "if he was cabbaged up." Because it already names the extreme, it takes no degrees, so nobody is "more cabbaged." Keep it for casual talk among friends.

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