lamped

1. 1
   verbUKIreland

   Past tense and past participle of lamp.

   The bouncer lamped the troublemaker before security even arrived.

   He had lamped his rival in a moment of blind rage.

   Note

   A regular past form, so one spelling serves as both the simple past and the participle after have or be. Which verb it belongs to depends on where you are. In British slang, someone lamped has been hit. In Ireland and Britain, an animal lamped was hunted at night with a dazzling light. In American slang, lamped means hung out doing nothing. A vase can be lamped too, turned into a table lamp.

2. 2
   adjectiveIreland

   Intoxicated to an extreme degree; very drunk.

   She got completely lamped at the wedding and barely remembers the toasts.

   They were so lamped by closing time that the bartender called them cabs.

   Similardrunk, wasted, hammered, plastered, smashed

   Oppositesober

   Note

   Irish speech uses this word for drunkenness at its far end, usually after got or was: she got completely lamped. Elsewhere the same phrase can be heard as the past form of "lamp", since British slang uses lamped to mean hit. So "he got lamped" may mean punched rather than plastered. Context, and where the speaker is from, usually settle which one is meant.

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