English has thousands of slang terms for being drunk, and Paul Dickson has collected plenty of them. College-campus examples include squiffy, schmammered, schwasted, slizzered, and riding in the Tour de Franzia, a drinking game built around finishing a box of Franzia wine, sometimes while riding bikes. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “College Slang for Being Drunk: “Schmammered,” “Schwasted,” and “Slizzered””
You probably know that there are thousands of terms in English for being drunk, right?
Yes, there’s a whole book on that, right?
Yeah.
By Paul Dixon.
Tons of them about alcohol and drinkers and drinking and being drunk and so on.
Being squiffy.
Squiffy, yeah.
I’ve got a few here that are still used on college campuses.
Oh, yeah.
Blackout, schmammered, schwaisted, thrashed, slizzards.
I’m just not sure about that one.
Schmammery.
I like that.
You know these?
No.
Of course not.
And this one is not really about being drunk, but it’s a drunk game.
It’s called the Tour de Franzia.
It’s a drinking game in which you try to finish a box of Franzia wine.
It’s like one of these boxes of wine.
Narstie.
Yeah, Narstie.
Yeah.
And you try to do it while riding bikes and other things.
So it’s a Tour de Franzia.
Not a good idea.
It’s terrible.
And so my question for you, the listener, is what do you call being drunk now?
What’s the new term for you?
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