strung out

See also: strung-out

English

Verb

strung out

  1. simple past tense and past participle of string out

Adjective

strung out (comparative more strung out, superlative most strung out)

  1. (slang) Experiencing withdrawal symptoms of an addiction.
    • While he was strung out, he ranted about conspiracies that he couldn't remember when he sobered.
    • 1971, Donald Goines, Dopefiend, page 20:
      She believed he was becoming strung out, if he wasn't hooked yet
  2. Widely spaced.
    • After the storm the armada was strung out over the ocean, unable to cover each other in battle.
  3. Prolonged in an unnecessary or time-filling manner.
    Then I had to sit through a long strung-out discussion about nothing in particular.
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