have a snootful

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have a snootful (third-person singular simple present has a snootful, present participle having a snootful, simple past and past participle had a snootful)

1. (idiomatic) To be drunk.
   • 1969, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., chapter 2 (pages 19–42), in Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death, Vintage edition (1991 paperback), London: Vintage Books, published 2000, →ISBN, page 37:

     Billy usually didn’t drink much, because the war had ruined his stomach, but he certainly had a snootful now, and he was being unfaithful to his wife Valencia for the first and only time.

   • 2002 November 20th, Amanda Hesser, “Turkey Finds Its Inner Duck (and Chicken)”, in New York Times, retrieved 1 November 2011:

     “It strikes me as a dish invented by men in a hunt camp,” he added, “men who have a snootful, who say, ‘What would happen if we took this bird and put it in this bird?’”