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duck-bill catted adj. Drunk to a degree that you glide through the party, broad-mouthed and impossible to steer. Hanisha went duck-bill catted and negotiated the buffet like a paddlefish. duck-billed adj. A drinker who has acquired an improbable bill-like expression and now regards coffee as an aquatic necessity. Nnamdi went duck-billed before breakfast, his face arranged for water rather than conversation. duck-billed catted adj. Still drunk, and presenting a broad, improbable face to the morning as though dredged from an American river. Deborahann arrived duck-billed catted, regarding the breakfast table with prehistoric concentration. duck-billed dinosaured adj. Too drunk to distinguish a respectable walk from an extinct reptile’s determined progress towards the buffet. Keiaira became duck-billed dinosaured and approached the sandwiches with measured prehistoric intent. duck-billed platypused adj. Sufficiently drunk to reconcile a bill, webbed feet and mammalian business without requesting an explanation. Chabelli went duck-billed platypused and attempted to order supper by presenting one mysterious gesture. duck-drowndered adj. Having drunk enough to resemble a very heavy rain: pervasive, unavoidable, and chiefly noticeable indoors. Christalla became duck-drowndered and soaked the conversation without leaving her chair. duck-egg blued adj. Having drunk more than was prudent and acquiring the pale greenish complexion of a neglected bathroom tile. duck-faced adj. Having drunk enough to pout at every photograph and blame the lighting. duck-hawked adj. Drunk in a way that has you perched above the conversation, scanning the room for movement. Power got duck-hawked and surveyed the bar from the highest available stool. duck-squeezered adj. You have drunk enough to compress the evening into gravy, with the dignity of an obsolete kitchen implement. duckanoed adj. You are drunk and treating a wrapped Caribbean pudding as though it were a minor ceremonial object. Rashaun went duckanoed and untied the dessert with the gravity of opening state papers. duckanooed adj. Of a drinker: convinced that a banana-leaf parcel of sweet pudding constitutes the evening’s final institution. Kiambu became duckanooed and delivered a speech in praise of the wrapped dessert. duckbill catted adj. Drunk to the extent of filtering the conversation slowly, while remaining determined to swim upstream. duckbilled adj. Drunk, with the result that you address every glass as though it had a bill. Zaron spent twenty minutes feeding peanuts to a tumbler, thoroughly duckbilled. duckboarded adj. Drunk on the strength of a precarious sequence of steps, each relying on the last. Ganiya came duckboarded across the garden, requiring witnesses on either side. duckburgered (/ˈdʌkbɝɡɚd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and insisting the gathering has become a sandwich requiring everyone else's assistance. Ania grew duckburgered and assigned Glory to guard the imaginary filling.