shellacked

Adjective

1. Coated in shellac.
   • At Boy Bar, the bouncers, two tall, emaciated young men with shellacked hair under their bowler hats, were standing just inside the door to escape the cold. - 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback...
2. Drunk.
   • Those were my first impressions of wine: Ladies drink chilled, soft white while they gossip in the kitchen; old men drink strong, room-temperature red to get shellacked. - 2014, Maximillian Potter, Shadows in the...