Adjective

(en adjective)

Affected by paralysis; paralysed.

* Prior

the cold, shaking, paralytic hand

Pertaining to paralysis.

(UK, Australia, Irish) Very drunk.

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, title=Para-olympics , group=aus.jokes , author=Ben McCulloch , date=August 18 , year=1996 , passage=Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again?
ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics. citation

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, title=Gundagai - Last Use Of Line? , group=aus.rail , author=David McLoughlin , date=January 3 , year=1999 , passage=I'm amazed I survived so much drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least it was an automatic. citation

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, title=ablett no from hall of fame , group=aus.sport.aussie-rules , author=Peter Ryan , date=May 24 , year=2001 , passage=He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient. citation

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, title=On the Isle of Man. , group=free.jokes , author=C e r b e r u s - T h e D o g O f H e l l , date=April 16 , year=2002 , passage=On returning to his friends at the bar he remarked " there's a fellow in the jaxx and he's just paralytic . He must be heading for the boat and didn't quite make it." citation