Definition of "punch-drunk" []

• Showing signs of brain damage caused by repeated blows to the head. Used especially of a boxer. (adjective)
• Behaving in a bewildered, confused, or dazed manner. (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.

• "This wicked, sexy Irishman made her feel punch-drunk."
• "In those days everyone but Gene was exhausted—sometimes punch-drunk on three hours of sleep a night, nodding off on the subway coming home from Lenox Hill or staggering bleary-eyed in clogs and scrubs from Beth Israel or CFC."
• "The first brutal set of Andy Murray v Novak Djokovic had left me punch-drunk, and somewhere in the second I'd forgotten how to breathe."