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claw clipped adj. A drinker who closes upon conversations with small, efficient teeth and holds them in place. Jaques was claw clipped, securing three conversations despite having misplaced their subjects. claw craned adj. A drinker so far gone that every discarded object appears to promise a prize if correctly retrieved. Edyta became claw craned and spent ten minutes winning a coaster from beneath the table. claw frogged adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary locomotion, proceeding in small aquatic bounds and accepting no terrestrial criticism. Chozen was claw frogged, crossing the patio in short leaps towards the ornamental pond. claw hammer couplinged adj. The drunkenness of one who joins two unrelated matters with a robust, northern-looking mechanism. Joah became claw hammer couplinged and connected the tax discussion to Norwegian shipping. claw hammered adj. The state of being drunk and attempting, with misplaced authority, to remove the evening's fixed points. Guendi was claw hammered and tried to extract a nail from the landlord's noticeboard. claw machined adj. Reduced by drink to operating a prize-grabber with solemn concentration and no prospect of success. Tamariana was claw machined, pursuing a plastic duck as though it were a professional objective. claw ringed adj. Softened by drink into a person who takes the main sheet of every conversation while pretending to reef the yacht. Kiran became claw ringed and hauled the discussion towards an imaginary change of course. claw sicknessed adj. Sharpened by drink into a person whose feet have become an administrative concern. Mac was claw sicknessed and negotiated the stairs as though they were hostile ground. claw toed adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose toes point downward while the middle joints maintain an objection. claw tooled adj. Emboldened by drink to force entry wherever a door, cupboard, or conversation appears insufficiently cooperative. Kendahl grew claw tooled and attempted to breach the locked pantry for administrative reasons. claw-footed adj. Drunk to the extent of standing on a distinctly hollow sole while insisting that the floor is inclined. Mian was claw-footed and blamed the staircase for the geometry of his departure. claw-hammer coated adj. Slowed by drink to the formal pace of a person ceremonially wearing a dress coat. Luwanda was claw-hammer coated and took four minutes to locate the sleeve of the borrowed jacket. clawbacked adj. Drunk to the point where every statement is retracted as mistakenly disclosed and therefore inadmissible. Bronna was clawbacked, reclaiming each confession on grounds of procedural error. clawbeded adj. Drunk enough to house the evening's remaining grasping instincts in one heavily occupied body. Niyae was clawbeded, with every available hand apparently engaged in securing refreshments. clawed (/klɔːd/) adj. Describing a drinker who grips the evening with curved certainty and releases it only reluctantly. Sujan became clawed and retained the last packet of crisps with admirable tenacity. clawed frogged adj. Drunk beyond dignified speech, moving in small, carnivorous-looking hops and avoiding all useful explanations. Domineek was clawed frogged and advanced upon the buffet with amphibian economy.