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Definition of "hammered" []

  • Shaped or worked with a metalworker's hammer and often showing the marks of these tools: a bowl of hammered brass. (adjective)
  • Slang Drunk or intoxicated. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "hammered" in a sentence
  • "The field getting most hammered is construction, and manufacturing is actually leading the jobs recovery."
  • "Much as Reagan tied his agenda to the notion that big government is “the problem,” Obama should have hammered from the first day at the notion that government had been representing moneyed interests in recent decades, rather than the voters."
  • ""Sen. John McCain hammered the Obama administration" ...?"
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