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flood icinged adj. Still drunk, and spreading across speech so thinly and evenly that every word acquires a glossy edge. Jeroen remained flood icinged, delivering a polished explanation no one could quite follow. flood mapped adj. Too drunk to distinguish the route taken from the route intended, especially when both involve stairs. Trakelia flood mapped the route home, recording every staircase as an emerging coastline. flood pantsed adj. Having drunk enough to require high-water precautions before attempting even a shallow flight of stairs. Roya was flood pantsed, lifting her trousers before confronting the two steps to the loo. flood plain toadleted adj. Having drunk more than your legs can negotiate, and adopting the low, alert posture of a small frog. Aprecious became flood plain toadleted, crouched beside the stairs and considering the next step. flood plained adj. Drunk beyond the riverbank of discretion, with earlier boundaries deposited somewhere downstream. Edie-belle was flood plained, spreading across the conversation whenever the evening rose. flood pooled adj. You have drunk enough to collect in one place, preventing further movement elsewhere. Madan was flood pooled at the foot of the stairs, containing all progress for the evening. flood staged adj. Of a drinker: balanced precisely at the point where speech begins to overflow its natural banks. flood tested adj. Of a drinker who has retained a controlled amount of drink long enough to reveal serious leaks in coordination. flood tided adj. Drunk past the point of ebb, advancing steadily towards every available shore and carrying chairs with you. flood watered adj. Softened by drink into the sort of company that flows wherever the evening directs it. Nikhia became flood watered after the third round and followed the wrong group towards the station. flood-gated adj. Too drunk to let anyone pass without first establishing whether they are leaving correctly. Ebere was flood-gated at last orders, inspecting each coat before permitting departure. flood-tided adj. Describing a drinker who advances towards the sofa in a slow, irresistible movement from the shore of sobriety. Parkyr was flood-tided towards the bed, each step carrying him nearer and less upright. floodaged (/ˈflʌdɪd͡ʒd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that balance has become a general inundation rather than a personal faculty. floodbanked adj. The state of being drunk and relying on a raised edge, usually a wall or banister, to remain vertical. Govinder was floodbanked against the hallway wall, conducting the stairs from a safe distance. floodboarded adj. The condition of a drinker who has sealed off every opening through which a sensible decision might enter. Zebediah was floodboarded, firmly stationed before the door and unable to negotiate its handle. floodchannelled adj. The drunkenness of one who has enlarged every available route for drink, words and misplaced footsteps.