The phrase "dead drunk" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is so drunk that they have become unconscious, or are extremely intoxicated and displaying unusual behavior. For example, "The party-goer had to be removed from the premises after getting dead drunk and starting a fight."
Nor can coffee be credited with having reined in England's boozy ways, since London's Gin Craze of the seventeen-twenties to the seventeen-fifties was among history's epic binges and man-made medical disasters; a sign on one of thousands of gin shops boasted, "Drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence, straw for nothing".
He returned with her and realized the woman was dead drunk.
If my son still chooses to get dead drunk with his friends, there will be consequences.
A lot of the boys were dead drunk and gassing outside in the yard.
I do not now remember how many times I was dead drunk in this period.
Where, for example, does a man without a home, prone to falling dead drunk on the street, hide his wages?
She is a contributor to the anthologies Leave the Lipstick, Take the Iguana (Traveler's Tales), Little White Dress (Mill Park Publishing), I Just Want to Be Alone and I Just Want to Be Perfect (Throat_Punch Books) and a coauthor of Drinking with Dead Women Writers and Drinking with Dead Drunks.
The twist here is Ronnie, a veritable catalog of dysfunction whose drop-dead drunk of a mother (Celia Weston) describes him as having been a special-needs child.
"Must Be Santa" goes like a train with a dead-drunk conductor.
We have you on camera for both of those, some nice DNA in the last room you did, with the dead-drunk guy sleeping through the whole thing.
Dunphy refused to be charmed by even Noël Coward, and when Humphrey Bogart and John Huston caroused, "half-drunk all day and dead-drunk all night," throughout the filming, in Italy, of "Beat the Devil," for which Capote had written the script, "Jack was disgusted with the whole thing".
