English

Alternative forms

• paralytick (obsolete)

Noun

paralytic ‎(plural paralytics)

1. Someone suffering from paralysis.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:paralytic.

Translations

Adjective

paralytic ‎(comparative more paralytic, superlative most paralytic)

1. Affected by paralysis; paralysed.
   • Prior

     the cold, shaking, paralytic hand

2. Pertaining to paralysis.
3. (Britain, Australia, Ireland) Very drunk.
   • 1996 August 18, Ben McCulloch, “Para-olympics”, in aus.jokes, Usenet:

     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.

   • 1999 January 3, David McLoughlin, “Gundagai - Last Use Of Line?”, in aus.rail, Usenet:

     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.

   • 2016 May 24, Peter Ryan, “ablett no from hall of fame”, in aus.sport.aussie-rules, Usenet:

     He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient.

   • 2016 April 16, C e r b e r u s - T h e D o g O f H e l l, “On the Isle of Man.”, in free.jokes, Usenet:

     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."

Translations

Derived terms

• paralytically