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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stoned
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "What did you guys end up doing last night?" "Not much. We got stoned and watched TV - that's about it."
▪ The guy playing lead guitar was completely stoned.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All she wanted now was to get really stoned and lie back on the mattress thinking good thoughts.
▪ And I am not too tired, not too stoned and not too straight.
▪ But eventually there comes a time when you can't get any more stoned and still be happy.
▪ He stared with his stupendously stoned eyes at the assembled and stricken family.
▪ Like a sixties' hippie, Preston thought irreverently, half way to getting stoned.
▪ One night I got stoned and saw exactly what I'd become - a spoiled, heartless little shit.
▪ That was the usual clientele, the stoned inhabitants of local squats and basements.
▪ They're either in the local pubs getting stoned or tucked up in bed waiting for the big day tomorrow.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stoned

Stone \Stone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoning.] [From Stone, n.: cf. AS. st?nan, Goth. stainjan.]

  1. To pelt, beat, or kill with stones.

    And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
    --Acts vii. 59.

  2. To make like stone; to harden.

    O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart.
    --Shak.

  3. To free from stones; also, to remove the seeds of; as, to stone a field; to stone cherries; to stone raisins.

  4. To wall or face with stones; to line or fortify with stones; as, to stone a well; to stone a cellar.

  5. To rub, scour, or sharpen with a stone.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stoned

1510s, "having or containing stones," past participle adjective from stone (v.). From 1728 as "deprived of stones." Slang meaning "drunk; intoxicated with narcotics" is from 1930s. Stoner is from mid-14c. as "one who stones;" mid-1960s as "stuporous person."

Wiktionary
stoned
  1. 1 high on drugs, especially cannabis (weed). 2 drunk. v

  2. (en-past of: stone)

WordNet
stoned

adj. under the influence of narcotics [syn: hopped-up]

Wikipedia
Stoned

Stoned may refer to:

  • Substance intoxication, particularly cannabis intoxication
  • Petrification, process of organic matter turning into stone
  • Stoning, a form of execution performed by throwing stones at the victim
  • Stoning (metalworking)
  • Stoned (computer virus), a boot-sector virus created in 1987
Stoned (film)

Stoned, also known as The Wild and Wycked World of Brian Jones in the UK, is a 2005 film about Brian Jones, one of the founding members of The Rolling Stones. The film is a cinematic work of historical fiction, taking as its premise the idea that Jones was murdered by Frank Thorogood, a builder who had been hired to renovate and improve Jones's house Cotchford Farm in East Sussex. The film also paints a picture of Jones's use of alcohol and drugs, and his relationships with Anita Pallenberg and Anna Wohlin.

The film was directed by Stephen Woolley, and written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. Leo Gregory played the role of Brian Jones and Paddy Considine of Frank Thorogood.

This film grossed $38,922 in limited theatrical release in the United States.

Stoned (computer virus)

Stoned is the name of a boot sector computer virus created in 1987. It is one of the very first viruses, it is thought to have been written by a university student in Wellington, New Zealand. By 1989 it had spread widely in New Zealand and Australia, and variants became very common worldwide in the early 1990s.

A computer infected with the original version had a one in eight probability that the screen would declare: "Your PC is now Stoned!", a phrase found in infected boot sectors of infected floppy disks and master boot records of infected hard disks, along with the phrase "Legalise Marijuana". Later variants produced a range of other messages.

Stoned (TV special)

"Stoned" is a 1980 ABC Afterschool Special starring Scott Baio which is built around peer pressure and its resultant drug abuse. It was featured as the fourth episode in the program's ninth season.

Stoned (Puddle of Mudd song)

"Stoned" is the second single off the album Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love & Hate by rock band Puddle of Mudd. The song was available for download on iTunes and online music retail sites on December 8, 2009, and released to radio on March 8, 2010. Stoned was the #1 most added track at Active Rock as soon as it impacted radio, with 60+ new stations coming aboard in a week. The song was written by Puddle of Mudd front-man Wes Scantlin.

On March 25, 2010, Puddle of Mudd made an appearance on NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and played "Stoned".

Stoned (Acid Witch album)

Stoned is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Acid Witch. It was released on November 15, 2010 on Hell's Headbangers.

Stoned (The Rolling Stones song)

"Stoned" was released in the UK by The Rolling Stones on the Decca label on 1 November 1963, as the B-side to their version of " I Wanna Be Your Man". Recorded in early October 1963, it was the first song released to be credited to " Nanker Phelge", and the band's first original composition. Derivative of " Green Onions" by Booker T. & the M.G.s, this bluesy instrumental was not released in the United States on "moral grounds" until its inclusion on Singles Collection: The London Years in 1989. It also appeared on the 1973 UK-only compilation No Stone Unturned, and on Singles 1963-1965 (2004).

Usage examples of "stoned".

They giggled with the profound scattiness that only the truly stoned can manage.

Mob of Hole ghoulies, stoned on the jolt they bought from the man with steel eyes.

Unfortunately the tattoo had been rather inexpertly applied by a stoned goth at the Glastonbury festival, and the fist looked like a penis, which was hardly a feminist symbol.

At the age of fifteen he and a group of peers stoned a reporter to death for writing an article that was critical of the madrasa they attended.

Claimant after claimant to the Messiahship had come forth, tried to rally the masses, and been stoned to death or crucified for his trouble.

I had allowed al-Azufa to lead the prayers, he would have railed against the president for a lack of piety and probably stoned to death a few adulterers for good measure.

The Rastafarian had affected an accent that seemed an excellent approximation of how a stoned robot might sound.

Surely the very kidneys of wisdom, Florence Green has only one kidney, I have a kidney stone, Baskerville was stoned by the massed faculty of the Famous Writers School upon presentation of his first lesson: he was accused of formalism.

He had begun having bizarre and wistful dreams about going out to sleazy dives, getting stoned to the brainstem on endorphin-rock and beer, and picking a fight with the first person to look at him side wise.

She was a little lump amid a scattering of Cheerios in front of the television, stoned on a sippy-cup of juice.

Moreover she caused, that the wife of a certain lover that she had should never be delivered of her childe, but according to the computation of all men, it is eight yeares past since the poore woman first began to swell, and now shee is encreased so big, that shee seemeth as though she would bring forth some great Elephant : which when it was knowne abroad, and published throughout all the towne, they tooke indignation against her, and ordayned that the next day shee should most cruelly be stoned to death.

LSD, and rumors of kids so stoned their eyeballs got fried because they stared at the sun too long.

I tried to imagine them in tie-dye and beards, or working naked on the land, getting stoned and talking about the power of the patriarchal military-industrial complex, but all I could see were accountants and psychotherapists, the sons and daughters of middle America finally leading the kind of lives their parents would at least have understood, if not wholly approved.

For one thing, I thought Seriphean Dictys would be pleased to see it again, so I'd kept in it all my souvenirs: a piece of the net he'd fished us ashore with, the crescent scabbard of Hermes's sickle, couple of rocks from giant Atlas after I'd stoned him, fern-corals from Joppa (I'd laid Medusa's head on seaweed while I skewered Cetus), Andromeda's leg-irons, the Larissan discus, and the letters.

Princess she may be, and daughter of his loins - but if he had not publicly forgiven her, she would have been stoned to death for angering him.