get high

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Verb

get high (third-person singular simple present gets high, present participle getting high, simple past got high, past participle gotten high)

(idiomatic) To intoxicate oneself with drugs or other substances.
- 1967, “With a Little Help from My Friends”, in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, performed by Beatles:
  I get high with a little help from my friends
- 2001, “Because I Got High”, in Because I Got High, performed by Afroman:
  I was going to make love to you, but I got high

Translations

get high

French: se défoncer (fr)
Hungarian: betép (hu)
Italian: drogarsi (it), farsi (it)
Polish: ćpać (pl), jarać (pl)

Russian: пыхнуть (ru) (pyxnutʹ), накуриться (ru) (nakuritʹsja), словить кайф (slovitʹ kajf)
Slovene: zadeti se
Spanish: drogarse (es), colocarse (es), pichicatearse (es)

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