Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
smacked off his face
English answer:
high on drugs
English term
smacked off
someone blaming his mate of getting intoxicated during an important meeting. The material is British.
Thanks in advance,
4 +2 | smacked off his face = high on drugs | philgoddard |
5 | Smack = Heroin | Lara Barnett |
Mar 19, 2022 15:36: philgoddard changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2126150">S.J's</a> old entry - "smacked off"" to ""smacked off his face = high on drugs""
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smacked off his face = high on drugs
It's more likely to be marijuana, since that's the most common drug.
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writeaway
: High on drugs is a big step from being stoned on marijuana /ok my bad. But without more context, this answer is taking things very far and it may well be just a question of someone being drunk
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I didn't initially suggest booze. I gave references showing that "twisted" means drunk and high, and "smacked off his face" means high. High and stoned are the same thing, and marijuana is a drug.
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Tony M
: Yes, 'sùak' is another slang word for (specifically) hard drugs. If he were only drunk, I'd have expected rather 'smashed'.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: You might be right though I'd expect heroin to be the drug. I think "twisted" and "intoxicated" indicate alcohol however. Not pro. Just not enough useful context
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I think it is pro. I had to look up "twisted" and "smacked".
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Althea Draper
: see discussion box
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Smack = Heroin
"Heroin
A powerful opiate that’s usually sold as a white or brown powder.
Also called:
Brown... Gear... H... Horse... Skag... SMACK..."
https://www.talktofrank.com/drug/heroin
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Note added at 21 hrs (2022-03-19 10:04:07 GMT)
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It looks like this phrase is also a mash-up with the idiom "OFF ones face", hence the choice of Preposition OFF, (as opposed to perhaps Up...)
off (one's) face
Very intoxicated from drugs or alcohol.
"You were really OFF your face last night! How do you feel this morning?"
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/off his face
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writeaway
: no confirmation this is about heroin
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I know, but my answer has explained the root of the meaning for the asker - even if this context is about other drugs, that doesn't change the root meaning of the word.
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Yvonne Gallagher
: What I said in Dbox but too little context. Especially when asker uses "intoxicated"
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Yes, of course, but if the route of the word used comes from heroin-based vocabulary, it is still worthwhile letting the asker know about it - in case he wants to make use of the idea.
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Discussion
"being smacked off your face on free caffeine."
https://forum.bikeradar.com/discussion/12976600/crc-5-discou...
"Unless you’re smacked off your face on mushrooms you could be frankly anywhere. "
https://www.store.badboyrunning.com/2019/05/29/10-places-to-...
" if you smoked it you ended up smacked off your face, higher than a British bankers end of year bonus"
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yK1hEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT22&lpg... (referring to a hallucinatory plant)
"she was still smacked off her face on diazepam"
https://thewhynottraveller.com/2019/02/13/just-friends-pt1/
More context please!!
We had "off my head" recently I think. To me it usually refers to being completely out of it on DRUGS, not drink though I know some people say otherwise.
Do you have any more context?
www.urbandictionary.com › define › term=off my face
The altered mental state that accompanies acute illness or use of intoxicating substances. Usually a result of too many bevvies.
The Urban Dictionary should be your first port of call for questions like this.
And "off his face" means the same as "out of his head", so it's not "smacked off" but "smacked" + "off his head".