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Teal lime Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Get high, get excited,.....

Would you please give me some idiomatic/informal/colloquial alternatives to "get high" and "get excited"?

Thank you.

  

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get high is usually used in the context of taking illegal drugs. ) Commonly said in reference to children who get excited . Look here.

  • get high is usually used in the context of taking illegal drugs.
  • ) Commonly said in reference to children who get excited .
  • Look here.
  • com/thesaurus/excited
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get high is usually used in the context of taking illegal drugs.

get hyper (short for get hyperactive.) Commonly said in reference to children who get excited.


Look here.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excited

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Those expressions are fairly informal already.

I'm too old to know all the current terms so I'll just give you the definitions.

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teal limeidiomatic/informal/colloquial alternatives to "get high"

After quite a bit of research I found these.

get high: smoke some weed, smoke some grass, smoke a joint, smoke some wacky tobacky, get stoned (for getting high on marijuana)

get high: do a line, sniff a line, do a line of coke, sniff a line of coke (for getting high on cocaine)

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