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hitch racked adj. Drunk past the point of standing unaided, and using the nearest post as though awaiting a horse. Zakylah was hitch racked by breakfast, leaning against the porch while the kettle boiled. hitch-hikered adj. Drunk by the third round, and soliciting assistance from passing vehicles with misplaced confidence. Garrey was hitch-hikered and attempted to flag down a delivery van already inside the yard. hitched (/hɪt͡ʃd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that each movement contains a sudden pull in an unforeseeable direction. Beaumont was hitched and arrived at the bar by a series of abrupt lateral movements. hitchelled adj. You are drunk and separating the morning's recollections into fibres too fine to be useful. Bisleidy sat hitchelled over tea, teasing the night's events into increasingly useless strands. hitchered adj. Drunk on the strength of being offered a lift by anything stationary enough to bear weight. Sheletha became hitchered and attempted to flag down a lamp post outside the pub. hitchhiked (/ˈhɪt͡ʃhaɪkd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and willing to accept transport from any passing object with a plausible direction. hitchhikered adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every passing vehicle as a likely solution to the question of residence. Adrion became hitchhikered and negotiated with a taxi whose doors were locked. hitchhikinged adj. Still drunk, and conducting the act of requesting lifts with the persistence of a person who has misplaced the route home. Quandell remained hitchhikinged outside the station, soliciting rides from vehicles going nowhere nearby. hitchinessed (/ˈhɪt͡ʃinəsd/) adj. Too drunk to proceed without developing a conspicuous tendency towards sudden snags and interruptions. Diangelo was hitchinessed, snagging on the door, the rug, and eventually his own sleeve. hitching posted adj. Having drunk enough to require tethering to a fixed post before wandering becomes a practical concern. hitching railed adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a horse that has found the nearest rail and declined to leave it. Alexandera spent the morning hitching railed beside the garden gate, awaiting tea and further instructions. hitching-barred adj. Drunk and secured to the furniture, requiring a second person to remember where the carriage went. hitchinged (/ˈhɪt͡ʃɪŋd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to fasten oneself to the nearest stable object and regard the arrangement as permanent. Clesson was hitchinged to the banister and declined suggestions that this was temporary. hitchlessnessed adj. Drunk to the point where the night seemed to proceed smoothly, though the morning offered contrary evidence. Isai woke hitchlessnessed, unable to identify a single difficulty apart from the missing shoe. hitchmented adj. Drunk enough to combine several separate journeys into one account, with no agreement about where they began. Roline was hitchmented by dawn, insisting that three taxis had shared one destination. hitchracked adj. Drunk beyond remembering whether the post supported you or merely happened to be there.