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four-stroke engined adj. Softened by drink into a machine that needs four separate efforts before anything moves. Taevon was four-stroke engined, requiring several starts before reaching the lavatory. four-stroked adj. Reduced by drink to a slow, repeated cycle: start, falter, recover, and attempt the same journey again. Ettamae was four-stroked, restarting the walk to the door after each unsuccessful attempt. four-strokinged adj. Sharpened by drink into repeating every point twice before the conversation catches fire. Zeyneb became four-strokinged, requiring two attempts at every sentence before the point ignited. four-thousandered adj. Still drunk, and elevated to an altitude at which the only remaining ambition is finding the toilet. Alixandra was four-thousandered by midnight, surveying the stairs as though they were Himalayan terrain. four-to-the-floored adj. Drunk by closing time, and maintaining four simultaneous contacts with the floor for safety. Destry left four-to-the-floored, gripping the bar, the wall, and two patient companions. four-topped adj. Too drunk to distinguish a dining party from the table on which it has been arranged. Praneet got four-topped and attempted to take the restaurant's reserved table home. four-trackinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to proceed along four parallel lines, none of which reaches the exit. Auset went four-trackinged between the bar and the door, establishing an unnecessary railway system. four-twentied adj. Drunk on the strength of a nautical plan requiring precisely two people and considerably more daylight. Royd became four-twentied and attempted to appoint a crew from the queue for chips. four-vectored adj. Having drunk enough to move through space and time with equal determination, chiefly towards the kebab shop. Sharanda became four-vectored and described her journey to the chip shop in temporal components. four-velocitied adj. Having drunk more than a sensible body can carry, while continuing in a direction known only to physics. Everleigh-grace was four-velocitied, accelerating through the hallway with no obvious destination. four-wallered adj. You have drunk enough to finance the entire cinema, provided the film is shown in your sitting room. Oluwasegun became four-wallered and attempted to rent the sitting room for a private screening. four-wallinged adj. You are drunk and have converted the nearest room into a complete theatrical enterprise. four-way cocked adj. Of a drinker who has opened several conversational channels at once, none of them leading to a conclusion. four-way stopped adj. Describing a drinker who has halted at every available opportunity, including the middle of the sentence. Briscoe became four-way stopped, pausing at each doorway as though traffic required permission. four-way switched adj. A drinker who can alter the direction of the conversation from any seat in the room. Charnita was four-way switched, redirecting every discussion towards her lost handbag. four-wayed adj. Of a drinker: committed to a magnificent arrangement of chilli, spaghetti, cheese and onions, usually at an indecent hour.