Blotto

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–adjective Slang. 

very drunk; so drunk as to be unconscious or not know what one is doing.





　

This lifeless triangle is the first misstep in a film that tries to be too many things at once - funny but not campy, sad and scary, a horror story and a human tragedy - but that has to make these people real if their later trauma is going to upset us at all. 



The screenwriters, Charles Edward Pogue and Mr. Cronenberg, do give Brundle some poignant motivation for the weird experiment that blends his genes with that of a fly. Jealous of Ronnie's old boyfriend, 



Brundle gets [drunk] and steps into the transponder, too passionate for [caution], too blotto to [notice] the fly that has buzzed into the cell along with him. 





inebriate

and asks her irascibly [inebriated] uncle to translate.

teetotal

Mol's fetchingly [bewigged] Bettie is a simple country girl—God-fearing and [teetotaling]. 

carouse

carousal n.

John and his buddy Tom run with a rough group of men who like to [drink] and [carouse]

cf. 

carousel 

a merry-go-round in an amusement park

a baggage carousel at an [airport]

Detest