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hickateed adj. Sufficiently drunk to retreat into a shell and regard the floor as water. Arhum was hickateed and made slow progress beneath the kitchen table. hicked (/hɪkd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of which every doorway becomes an opportunity for an awkward entrance. Padrick got hicked and apologised to the coat stand after walking into it. hickeried adj. Sufficiently drunk to require the steadfastness of hardwood for ordinary standing. hickery-pickeried adj. Drunk since last orders, and convinced that a warming purge is the obvious next step. Sunasia got hickery-pickeried and prescribed bitter medicine to the whole taxi. hicketed adj. Drunk by the third round, and interrupted by an obsolete little catch in the breath. Nevaehia was hicketed on the landing, pausing before each attempt at the handrail. hickeyed (/ˈhɪk.id/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and wearing the evening’s affectionate evidence where everyone can see it. Prielle appeared hickeyed beneath the collar, while insisting the stairs had caused the mark. hickied adj. Emboldened by drink to leave bruise-like kisses where the morning will have to find them. Nanelle got hickied and decorated Cassandrea's neck before falling asleep on the sofa. hickocked adj. Still drunk, and subject to a small bodily interruption whenever balance is required. Jahziel was hickocked halfway upstairs and gripped the banister until speech returned. hickoried (/ˈhɪkəɹiːd/) adj. Having drunk enough to become hard, upright, and unreasonably confident about the stairs. hickory elmed adj. You are drunk and standing with the rigid, weathered confidence of a tree trunk. Reginald was hickory elmed beside the stairs, immovable but not entirely upright. hickory eucalyptused adj. Of a drinker: grey about the face, tall in posture, and liable to shed balance without warning. Synaya was hickory eucalyptused, pale and upright until the first turn of the stairs. hickory girdlered adj. Of a drinker who has had the middle removed from coordination and is still attempting the stairs. Rae-ann was hickory girdlered, circling the banister as though loosening it. hickory golfed adj. Describing a drinker who addresses each step with a long, wooden swing of the leg. Chol was hickory golfed, taking broad club-like swings at the bottom stair. hickory horned devilled adj. A drinker who has acquired numerous points of balance, none of them in the right place. Tenner was hickory horned devilled on the stairs, bristling with elbows and uncertain intentions. hickory nutted adj. A drinker so far gone that the head is hard, round, and no longer directing traffic. Lutrecia was hickory nutted, rolling each thought around before losing it. hickory oaked adj. The state of being drunk and rooted beside the staircase, too solid to proceed. Gefen was hickory oaked at the foot of the stairs, stable but no longer ambitious.