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Yes, in the UK potted means condensed, abbreviated, as used in other phrases like potted history…
http://www.olympicwomen.co.uk/Potted.htm
Hah, I had never realised USn understanding of this phrase might be so warp~, er, different!
potted
ADJECTIVE: 1. Slang. Stupefied, intoxicated, or otherwise influenced by the taking of drugs: drugged. Informal : doped. Slang : high, hopped-up, lit (up), spaced-out, stoned, turned-on, wiped-out, zonked. See DRUGS. 2. Slang. Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal : cockeyed, stewed. Slang : blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in (or to) the wind. See DRUGS.
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