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ice ploughed adj. Slowed by drink to cutting furrows through frozen water, chiefly in search of the exit. Hoda became ice ploughed and channelled gravy across the table. ice plowed adj. Drunk and cutting deliberate channels through whatever remains between the glass and the door. ice pointed adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation reaches zero degrees and remains there. Lakendrick became ice pointed and reduced the party to a freezing silence. ice poled adj. Drunk enough to mistake a frozen fruit snack for a ceremonial standard and carry it accordingly. Liley grew ice poled and led the toast with a melting orange lolly. ice popped adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a frozen lolly from a small, portable occasion. ice quaked adj. Drunk to the point where the morning's silence breaks with the concussion of a collapsing glacier. Ulyssa woke ice quaked, rattling the bedside glass whenever she turned over. ice queened adj. Drunk beyond ordinary warmth, beautiful in repose and heartless about sharing the crisps. ice racinged adj. Drunk in a way that makes the carpet a frozen lake and every chair a competing vehicle. ice resurfacered adj. Drunk, with the result that every tabletop is smoothed repeatedly and no drink remains upright. ice rinked adj. Drunk to a degree that turns the room into a skating venue and walking into a public display. Bale became ice rinked and attempted a graceful circuit of the lounge. ice roaded adj. Drunk on the strength of a winter highway, proceeding carefully across the carpet while carrying no supplies. ice runned adj. Drunk since last orders, and breaking apart downstream through the house in separate, unavoidable pieces. ice saintsed adj. Drunk by the third round, and observing a private calendar of solemn feast days for the bar snacks. ice scootered adj. Drunk by closing time, and travelling on imaginary runners wherever the floor appears insufficiently firm. Lancelot ice scootered across the closing-time carpet, certain the imaginary runners were load-bearing. ice scoured adj. Still drunk, and leaving a narrow, persistent channel through the household as the evening moves on. Natanel became ice scoured, wearing a trench from sofa to refrigerator. ice scrambled (/ˌaɪs ˈskɾam.bold/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish a Filipino shaved-ice dessert from an administrative emergency. Cherina became ice scrambled and requested condensed milk for the paperwork.