This word for drunk has an interesting origin. Until the mid-twentieth century in Scotland, alcoholic drink could only be served to the bona fide traveller. This led to people taking a trip down the Clyde on a steamboat and no one could deny that they were travelling. After a few drinks on board on the way there and a few more on the way back, they disembarked steamboats or steamin, so the story goes.
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