ppl. adj. (colloquial).—1. Vanquished; brought under; ruined. For synonyms, see DEADBEAT and infra.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—Basketted; bitched; bitched-up; bowled out; broken up; buggered up; busted; caved in; choked-off; cornered; cooked; coopered up; dead-beat; done brown; done for; done on toast; doubled up; flattened-out; fluffed; flummoxed; frummagemmed; gapped; gone through St. Peter’s needle; gone under; gravelled; gruelled; hoofed out; in the last of pea-time, or last run of shad; jacked-up; knocked out of time; knocked silly; looed; mucked-out; petered out; pocketed; potted; put in his little bed; queered in his pitch; rantanned; sat upon; sewn up; shut-up; smashed to smithereens; snashed; snuffed out; spread-eagled; struck of a heap; stumped; tied up; timbered; treed; trumped; up a tree.
FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Mon linge est lavé (pop.: = I have thrown up the sponge); coller sous bande (= to put in a hole: at billiards, bande = cushion); avoir son affaire (pop: = to have got a ‘settler’); aplatir (fam: = to flatten out); aplomber (thieves’: = to brazen down; to bluff); être pris dans la balancine (pop.: = to be in a fix); se faire coller (familiar); envoyer quelqu’un s’asseoir, or s’asseoir sur quelqu’un (popular).
ITALIAN SYNONYM.—Traboccare (= to overturn).
SPANISH SYNONYMS.—Pesado (doubled-up: from peso = weight); aculado (from acular = to corner); arrollar (= to sweep away, as a torrent); aturrullar (= to shut up); cogite! (= ‘I’ve got you,’ or, ‘there I have you!’).
2. (common).—Drunk; in Shakespearean ‘put down’: as Sir Andrew Aguecheek, ‘Never in your life, I think, unless you see Canary PUT ME DOWN.’ (Twelfth Night, i. 3). For synonyms, see SCREWED.
3. (painters’).—Hung low at an exhibition; in contradistinction to SKYED (q.v.), and ON THE LINE (q.v.).
