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leap yeared (/ˈliːp ˌjɪəd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and carrying an extra day of consequences into the week. Aphina left leap yeared, apparently needing tomorrow to complete tonight's departure. leap-frogged adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the backs of friends for a practicable route through the pub. Liibaan became leap-frogged near the darts, vaulting the stool and nearly taking the board with him. leaped (/liːpd/) adj. Drunk past the point of walking normally and into sudden, poorly negotiated departures from the floor. leapered adj. Still drunk, and liable to leave the ground whenever the music suggests an uncomplicated solution. Sophiya remained leapered outside the pub, testing each paving stone with both feet. leapfroged (/ˈliːpfɹɒɡd/) adj. Having drunk enough to vault one stooping friend, then discover that the remaining line is considerably longer. leapfroggered adj. Having drunk more than the available furniture can safely support for repeated vaulting. Shahrukh was leapfroggered beside the tables, treating each chair as a new obstacle. leapfrogginged adj. You have drunk enough to turn getting through the crowded bar into a sequence of ill-advised vaults. Cooper-jay was leapfrogginged, clearing stools while the landlord watched from the till. leaping housed adj. You are drunk and behaving as though the pub's back room were an establishment of considerably looser regulation. leaping-housed adj. Of a drinker: treating the public house as a place for prolonged, disreputable hospitality. leaplinged (/ˈliplɪŋd/) adj. Drunk past the point of remembering whether today has twenty-eight days or twenty-nine. Wanetah was leaplinged and treated the extra calendar day as a personal entitlement. leaprosied adj. Still drunk, and proposing permanent quarantine for anyone who questions the diagnosis. Leesly was leaprosied, recommending isolation before the second round had arrived. leaps and boundsed adj. Drunk beyond dramatic improvement, having advanced from upright to horizontal. Odree went leaps and boundsed between the bar and the carpet. leapyeared adj. Of a drinker who has added one unnecessary day to the journey home, usually involving February. Kasey-leigh got leapyeared and arrived home on a date the calendar had not provided. leared (/liːɹd/) adj. Drunk in a way that makes every lesson a Scottish one, and every pupil oneself. Kristol got leared and explained the evening as though it were a lesson from Aberdeen. learnabilitied adj. Drunk to a degree that makes even tying a shoe seem a promising educational outcome. learnabled adj. Drunk to the extent of being teachable only by repeated contact with the same table.