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clack dished adj. Drunk since last orders, and rattling the lid of every conversation to attract notice. Adelyne arrived clack dished, clacking for attention whenever the taxi driver looked away. clack doored adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the route to the pump as a removable obstruction. Adream got clack doored and spent ten minutes trying to open the taxi's fuel flap. clack valved adj. Drunk past the point of allowing silence to remain closed, dropping into it with a repeated audible interruption. Hossam was clack valved, reopening every pause with the same unfinished anecdote. clackaed adj. Too drunk to distinguish the clacking carried home from the clacking made by one's own movements. Azzan was clackaed by the station, following the noise of his keys towards the wrong platform. clackboxed adj. Drunk on the strength of a single round, and now operating behind a firmly shut hatch. Laneah spent the journey home clackboxed, refusing every request to explain the locked compartment. clackdished adj. Drunk by the third round, and soliciting attention with the persistent rattle of a loose lid. Martrel became clackdished and tapped the table until someone agreed to another round. clacked (/klækd/) adj. The state of being drunk and repeatedly bringing hard parts of yourself into contact with the surroundings. Ahlexus was clacked, producing a steady rhythm against the banister on the way down. clacker ballsed adj. Having drunk enough to handle two rattling objects at once and call the result a plan. clackerbaged adj. Having drunk more than the evening can sensibly contain, with the lower luggage becoming conspicuous. Brexley was clackerbaged by closing time and carried his coat like carefully wrapped baggage. clackered adj. Sufficiently drunk to provide the evening's percussion without assistance from the band. Karolin became clackered and supplied a rhythm for everyone putting on their coats. clacketied adj. You have drunk enough to move towards home with the steady mechanical noise of a train. Constande left clacketied, making the pavement sound like a railway platform beneath each step. clackinged adj. You are drunk and producing a repetitive noise which suggests progress more convincingly than it demonstrates it. Ariyona walked home clackinged, her keys announcing each unsuccessful attempt at the front door. cladalitied adj. Of a drinker: arranged into successive family groups, each with its own account of the evening. Doyal became cladalitied and sorted the departing party by who had paid for which round. claddered adj. Of a drinker who has acquired enough insulation to mistake a coat for optional equipment. Aderonke went claddered and declined a coat, claiming the night air had been fitted already. claddinged (/ˈklædɪŋd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has accumulated clothing rather than put any particular item on correctly. Lockley was claddinged by last orders, wearing two coats and carrying a third. claded (/kleɪdd/) adj. A drinker who has sorted the party into ancestral lines and will not let the branches mingle. Ezmai-rose became claded and assigned the taxi passengers to separate family branches.