full as a tick
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Meaning · English
Engorged with food or drink, especially alcoholic drink.
Nghĩa · Tiếng Việt
Ăn no hoặc uống say đến mức không thể chứa thêm
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Where it’s used:
Used
American English
Examples
Then we drank up all the beer, and threw the bottles into the water and fired at them. . . . "Stop ut!" shouted Mulvaney. "Whin you've fired into nothin' as often as me, over a better man than yoursilf, you will not make a mock av thim orders. 'Tis worse than whistlin' the Dead March in barricks. An
Usage example from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Adapted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30 via kaikki.org).
Common questions
What does “full as a tick” mean?
Engorged with food or drink, especially alcoholic drink.
Is “full as a tick” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.