S hook

n.

Heard in Tipperary

A particular level of extreme drunkenness.

He was in an s hook last night

Posh English

He was in a state of considerable inebriation last night.

Related terms

• Dind iv a hookThe very end or point of a fishing hook, often with the worm attached.
• Butcher's hookDublin rhyming slang for 'look'.
• By hook or by crookBy one means or another; whatever it takes. A phrase coined in Wexford.
• Hat on a hookIn its proper or expected place. Well situated.
• Left hook bai!A forceful warning of physical retribution delivered to an adversary.
• Sling yer hookA blunt instruction to leave someone's house immediately.