British slang meaning very drunk — the kind of drunk where judgment has fully departed and volume has noticeably increased. Honkers sits comfortably in the crowded British lexicon of drunk synonyms alongside paralytic, trolleyed, hammered, and bladdered. It has a slightly comic, pub-culture energy to it, and is often used retrospectively or with cheerful disbelief rather than disapproval.
By the second round of shots she was already honkers and trying to teach everyone a card trick she'd clearly forgotten halfway through.
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(UK, slang) Drunk.
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