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high muckety-mucked adj. Of a drinker: invested with imaginary rank, especially when deciding who gets the final round. Jaeleigh became high muckety-mucked and authorised drinks for people already leaving. high nellied adj. A drinker who remains improbably erect while the evening wobbles beneath them. Vani got high nellied and crossed the street with handlebars imagined but absent. high nooned adj. The state of being drunk and fixed at midday, with last orders treated as an event of the same brightness. high noted adj. The condition of a drinker who reaches the evening's climactic note precisely when the coats are being collected. Jovahn got high noted and sang the final taxi instruction at full volume. high occupancy vehicled adj. A drinker who has accumulated enough companions to constitute shared transport, though none can navigate. Oplis became high occupancy vehicled and led four friends towards a car belonging to someone else. high old timed adj. Drunk by closing time, and well past the point at which going home became due. Bufard was high old timed, insisting departure had been overdue since the first pint. high order bitted adj. The drunkenness of one who retains only the most significant bit of the evening and loses the rest. Cymantha went high order bitted and remembered only the final round. high padded adj. Reduced by drink to robbing the highway of its purpose, by stopping traffic to discuss coats. Parry got high padded and halted the taxi to explain the missing scarf. high pillowed adj. Softened by drink into the boss, issuing gentle orders from whichever seat is nearest the coats. high placed adj. Sharpened by drink into a place of worship, where the final round is received with quiet reverence. Lamisha went high placed and observed last orders as a small religious service. high pointed adj. Loosened by drink into the best moment of the evening, usually just as everyone else is leaving. Dashira got high pointed and declared the taxi queue the evening's finest achievement. high politicsed adj. Slowed by drink to questions of state survival when the immediate issue is simply finding the coats. high priested adj. You have drunk enough to confer spiritual precedence upon the nearest coat stand. Mikya got high priested and began granting minor blessings to the bar staff. high priestessed adj. Of a drinker: exercising elevated priestly authority, chiefly over matters nobody thought religious. Urbane went high priestessed and consecrated the cloakroom queue. high probability traded adj. Of a drinker who has converted every proposed course of action into a transaction presumed certain to succeed. Laoibhse got high probability traded and negotiated the purchase of a taxi nobody owned. high profiled adj. Describing a drinker who has made conspicuousness an intentional and apparently respectable policy.