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# blotto

adjective (blotto — slang, old-fashioned)

«blotto» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

### 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://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://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://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x3)
- (slang) He was so blotto he could not stand up. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x4)
- Getting blotto is dangerous for anyone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/#x5)
- The story's silly lord was always blotto by dinner. [tree →](https://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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «blotto» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blotto/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«blotto» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/blotto.html) on Mova free.