paralytic

noun

1. Someone suffering from paralysis.
2. A drug that produces paralysis.

   “For example, use of paralytics in morbidly obese patients or those with spinal instability can precipitate complete upper airway obstruction.”

adj

1. Affected by paralysis; paralysed.

   “the cold, shaking, paralytic hand”

2. Pertaining to paralysis.
3. (Australia, Ireland, UK, slang)Very drunk.

   “Are the para-olympics the events in which the olympians, having finished their events in the normal olympics, go out and get pissed and then compete again? ie: the para-olympics become the paralytic olympics.”

   “I'm amazed I survived so much drunken driving. Once he was so paralytic he even made me drive, and I was about 14 and barely able to see above the steering wheel. At least it was an automatic.”

   “He hasn't even been openly accused of anything bar drinking himself paralytic at a time that, in hindsight, was inconvenient.”

   “On returning to his friends at the bar he remarked " there's a fellow in the jaxx and he's just paralytic. He must be heading for the boat and didn't quite make it."”