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One over the eight 

Extremely intoxicated (drunk or pissed, whatever your preference)
"Call her a taxi, will you? She's had one over the eight and needs to go home."

one over tanch (1/tanh) 

slightly obscure this one, but was nevertheless widely used for a while in central london. it means to chill, relax, often along with smoking weed. derived directly from cotch, its root is interesting... the mathematicians amongst you will know that hyp(cos) is written 'cosh', and pronounced 'cotch'. this is trigonometrically equivalent to one over hyp(tan), or '1/tanh', pronounced 'tanch'. most people are unaware of this - its nevertheless used widely.
lets go back to mine and one over tanch it down...
one over tanch (1/tanh) by CJC Corn November 25, 2004

Smuggle one over the border 

Sorry I was late man, I had to smuggle one over the border real quick.

get one over on 

To win against someone who is not used to losing.
The bank made a mistake in the loan agreement and he was able to get one over on them by making them honour it.

Slut one over

A term used by Australian sportspeoples when they want a ball passed to them in the air
Georgio called to Gazza 'slut one over'as he entered te box
Slut one over by #YoGabbaGabba* March 11, 2015

wake one over 

1. To verbally take someone down
2. To beat someone up
1. I got so pissed off at what a bitch Samantha was being that I totally waked one over on her ass.

2. Joe is going to wake one over on Bobby so bad he won't be able to walk for days.
wake one over by synchrohobbit March 9, 2006