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float-on float-offed adj. The drunkenness of one who lets the sofa carry him into the kitchen and disembarks only for water. Tresaun was float-on float-offed, transported across the room by cushions and a determined elbow. float-zone siliconned adj. Drunk since last orders, and purified by repeated passage through the same narrow conversational zone. Takeya got float-zone siliconned and refined the pub argument until only one opinion remained. floatabilitied adj. Drunk by the third round, and displaying a marked ability to rise above both stool and conversation. Sheon became floatabilitied and appeared to leave the bar without moving his feet. floatabled adj. Drunk by closing time, and liable to drift wherever the remaining current of the pub takes you. floataged adj. Describing a drinker who has achieved buoyancy without any useful means of navigation. Eva-maude was floataged in the armchair, present but not progressing. floatanted adj. Still drunk, and treating every puddle as a suitable surface for a carefully prepared fly. Ayani was floatanted, placing a borrowed feather on the beer mat to test its buoyancy. floatationed adj. Drunk to a degree that your feet remain nominally afloat while your direction becomes theoretical. Jaraad went floatationed halfway up the stairs and required a handrail for navigation. floatbased adj. Too drunk to distinguish an airport from the pub's pool of spilled lager. floatboarded adj. Sufficiently drunk to propel the evening by leaning on whatever wooden surface comes to hand. floated (/fləʊtd/) adj. Describing a drinker who remains supported by the sofa despite no longer contributing structurally. Sohaib was floated, suspended comfortably between the sofa cushions and the evening. floatelled adj. Having drunk enough to regard the moored boat as a hotel, and the river as its corridor. Lizneidy got floatelled and asked the landlord which cabin served breakfast. floatered (/ˈfləʊtəd/) adj. Having drunk more than the evening can support, yet remaining oddly buoyant above the consequences. floatied (/ˈfləʊtid/) adj. A drinker so far gone that every glass appears to contain a small meal adrift in it. Kewanna spent ten minutes rescuing an imaginary morsel from the landlord's lager, thoroughly floatied. floatinessed adj. You have drunk enough to become light, uncommitted to the floor, and difficult to moor. Shantierra grew floatinessed and drifted between the bar and dartboard without choosing either. floating academied adj. Of a drinker: condemned to the pub's benches, with hard labour consisting chiefly of another round. Dottye became floating academied and served a lengthy sentence beside the last occupied table. floating beaconned adj. Of a drinker who has become the room's wavering light, visible chiefly to those trying to get home. Jenson-james stood floating beaconned by the doorway, guiding nobody towards the taxi rank.