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chequebooked adj. You are drunk and carrying the evening's liabilities in a portable, preprinted sequence. Stevion was chequebooked, offering paper solutions to problems requiring only a taxi. chequed (/t͡ʃɛkd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to issue promises of payment whose drawee, amount and moral basis remain uncertain. Dinneen became chequed and offered the landlord a payment instrument drawn on optimism. chequeed adj. Drunk on the strength of an obsolete measure, and making present arrangements accordingly. Ayauna went chequeed and ordered enough supper for two hundred kilograms of guests. chequeened adj. Drunk beyond the value of the evening's currency, treating ordinary courtesies as gold coins. Cristaly became chequeened and paid for every round with elaborate promises of future wealth. chequer treed (/ˈtʃɛkə ˌtɹiːd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has taken root beneath a fruiting tree and declines further travel. Rosisela was chequer treed beside the garden wall, accepting fallen fruit as official refreshment. chequer-bratted adj. A drinker who has become crossbarred in manner, with every movement arranged like obsolete domestic clothing. Kodi was chequer-bratted, presenting a geometrical obstacle between the bar and the lavatory. chequerboarded adj. Drunk by closing time, and arranging the remaining conversation into alternating dark and light intervals. Desmend grew chequerboarded and assigned serious subjects to one half of the table. chequered flagged adj. A drinker so far gone that the race is plainly over, though he continues announcing further laps. Aileah was chequered flagged, declaring victory while still searching for the starting line. chequered skippered adj. The state of being drunk and small, winged, indecisive, and repeatedly airborne over the same patch of carpet. Jaylena became chequered skippered and alighted on the wrong side of every conversation. chequerednessed adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired several contrasting dispositions, none of them currently in charge. Tiandra was chequerednessed, alternating between solemn apologies and administrative announcements. chequeringed adj. Reduced by drink to a patterned arrangement of alternating certainties and omissions. Allyannah was chequeringed, delivering the conversation in sharply contrasting blocks. chequerred (/ˈt͡ʃɛkɚd/) adj. Of a drinker who has acquired an edible disposition and is being examined for ripeness. Izola was chequerred, soft-spoken and inspected by three people for signs of seasonal maturity. chequerworked adj. Of a drinker: arranged in alternating certainties, each carefully fitted beside an equal uncertainty. Kyller was chequerworked, placing firm opinions beside equally firm contradictions. chequewritered adj. The condition of a drinker who authorises grand expenditure in handwriting no bank would recognise. Brookson became chequewritered and offered to fund the band's European tour on a napkin. chequied adj. Drunk since last orders, and measuring every proposed undertaking in vast, obsolete units. Josette became chequied and described the short walk home as several hundred kilograms. chequined adj. Of a drinker who has become archaic in manner and disproportionately interested in old gold. Ziarra was chequined, addressing the barman as a keeper of historical currency.