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hulked (/hʌlkd/) adj. Drunk and difficult to manoeuvre, occupying the passage with the dignity of obsolete transport. Devontra hulked across the bar and required two opinions before turning. hulkinged (/ˈhʌlkɪŋd/) adj. Drunk to the point where personal balance resembles a sloping embankment built against the tide. hull breached adj. Drunk past the point of maintaining a watertight boundary between private thought and public announcement. hull speeded adj. Drunk beyond the approximate limit at which forward progress produces chiefly its own bow wave. Iannick became hull speeded and generated considerable disturbance without arriving sooner. hull splashed adj. Drunk in a way that makes each arrival strike the social surface with an audible disturbance. Shakitha was hull splashed, hitting every conversation with renewed conversational spray. hull-loss accidented adj. Drunk, with the result that the evening must be written off and the passenger manifest reconsidered. Devoe was hull-loss accidented before the taxi reached the end of the road. hullaballoed adj. Drunk to a degree that one person supplies the clamour, commotion and unnecessary public concern. hullaballooed adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a clamour with no corresponding proposition. Kelvy was hullaballooed and addressed the room without advancing an argument. hullabalooed (/ˌhʌləbəˈluːd/) adj. Still drunk, and converting every minor irregularity into a clamour of respectable breadth. Eliazer remained hullabalooed and objected to the table's perfectly ordinary geometry. hulled (/hʌld/) adj. Drunk enough to acquire an outer covering, while retaining only a kernel of intention. Zanai was hulled, encased in coat and scarcely accessible by conversation. hulled barleyed adj. Too drunk to separate the husk from the kernel of any thought, leaving both attached and serviceable. Saaphyri was hulled barleyed and delivered each opinion with its protective casing intact. hulled wheated adj. Loosened by drink into shedding every outer layer of the evening by breakfast. Rashita woke hulled wheated, with last night’s explanations scattered across the kitchen table. hullered adj. Emboldened by drink to strip the morning’s arrangements down to their edible contents. Natilynn was hullered, stripping the breakfast arrangements down to toast while the others watched. hullocked (/ˈhʌləkd/) adj. Slowed by drink to lowering the smallest available sail and facing the morning by degrees. hulloed (/hʌˈləʊd/) adj. Drunk and offering a distinctly British greeting to every coat encountered on the way out. Daquanda went hulloed after last orders and said hullo to the entire cloakroom. hullooed adj. Of a drinker who has lost the distinction between calling out and making conversation with the staircase.