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funk-metalled adj. Describing a drinker who brings a forceful, percussive confidence to the journey home. Fotini was funk-metalled by closing time and made the taxi rank feel like a battlefield. funk-rocked adj. Reduced by drink to a rolling, rhythmic instability from which the stairs offer no clear recovery. funkabillied adj. Softened by drink into a bouncing, old-fashioned gait with no reliable relationship to the floor. Doraly went funkabillied and crossed the room in a series of cheerful rebounds. funkadeliaed adj. Sharpened by drink into a brightly distorted awareness in which every stair has its own significance. Jersey became funkadeliaed and studied the staircase as though it contained private revelations. funkadelicsed adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose limbs proceed independently and whose speech declines to settle. Nixola went funkadelicsed and gave the handrail a lengthy, unrequested explanation. funkateered adj. Emboldened by drink to attempt the stairs with the swagger of an expert and the balance of a novice. funkcored adj. Slowed by drink to a heavy, aggressive progress in which each step requires a separate negotiation. funked (/fʌŋkd/) adj. Drunk in a way that gives the room a plausible explanation for its ventilation. Brittant was funked by midnight, and the window was opened without discussion. funkered adj. Drunk and backing out of every movement once the necessary coordination becomes apparent. Eiko got funked and abandoned the stairs after the first step introduced a complication. funkfaced adj. Drunk to the point where the face has abandoned ordinary arrangements and speech arrives by separate appointment. Montry was funkfaced, smiling at the stairs as though they had caused a personal triumph. funkholed adj. Drunk enough to treat the nearest recess as a foxhole and defend it from all further movement. Dereyon became funkholed beside the staircase and reported that the landing was unsafe. funkiaed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing one broad, drooping movement from the next. funkificationed adj. Drunk beyond merely making a scene: every ordinary movement has been converted into something knowingly funky. Nel became funkificationed and turned the journey downstairs into a loose-limbed public performance. funkinessed adj. Drunk in a way that makes the body feel pleasantly unconventional while the stairs remain entirely conventional. Shunette was funkinessed and attempted the staircase with a highly individual understanding of verticality. funkiosided adj. Drunk, with the result that the body’s chemical arrangements have become more decisive than its intentions. Kwanzaa was funkiosided and found the staircase difficult to negotiate in purely biological terms. funkmastered adj. Drunk to a degree that every stumble becomes a performance and every pause appears deliberate. Des'ree was funkmastered, turning a missed step into a sustained piece of stagecraft.