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living impaired

A jocular, pseudo-politically correct term for being dead. The boss has ordered a hit on the stool pigeon, so make sure he's living impaired by the end of the day.

See also: impaired, living

hearing impaired

Euph. deaf or nearly deaf. This program is closed-captioned for our hearing-impaired viewers. His mother happens to be hearing impaired, so he learned to sign at an early age.

See also: hearing, impaired

visually impaired

Euph. blind or partly blind. I am visually impaired, but I like TV just as much as the next person. The disease left him visually impaired.

See also: impaired

impaired

mod. alcohol intoxicated. (Euphemistic.) He was so impaired he couldn’t see his hand in front of his face.