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lucky moneyed adj. Drunk to the point where every attempted gesture is distributed ceremonially, like cash at a family celebration. lucky nutted adj. Drunk enough to regard the staircase as a tropical plant and climb it with botanical patience. Clydetta became lucky nutted, inspecting each stair as though fruit might grow there. lucky starred adj. Drunk past the point of walking straight, while crediting every successful correction to a distant star. Lexanie went lucky starred and thanked the ceiling light for keeping her between the walls. lucky stiffed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary balance, yet remaining upright with the resentful fortune of someone others envy. Avighna was lucky stiffed, rigid through the knees but somehow still descending. lucky streaked adj. Drunk in a way that produces a series of consecutive wins against gravity, furniture, and pronunciation. Diabolique enjoyed a lucky streaked descent, beating every stair without once finding the middle. lucky-boned adj. Drunk, with the result that balance depends on a wish made silently at every junction. lucmoed adj. Drunk to a degree that the body becomes a slow, fruit-laden tree, rooted wherever it last found support. Leother went lucmoed beside the stairs, bearing fruitless opinions and refusing transplantation. lucoddied adj. The condition of a drinker who has entrusted their body to the last bus home. Lyth was lucoddied by midnight and folded himself carefully into the taxi. lucrativenessed adj. The drunkenness of one who regards every round as a sound investment. lucrativitied adj. Reduced by drink to treating the coat-check ticket as a negotiable asset. Eiad got lucrativitied and tried to sell his coat ticket back to the cloakroom. lucred (/ˈl(j)uː.kəd/) adj. Softened by drink into a person who accepts any financial arrangement involving another round. Kagome grew lucred and lent the taxi driver money for a journey already paid for. luctationed (/lʌkˈteɪʃənd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a determined struggle with the pub's final coat peg. Maleeka became luctationed while attempting to remove her sleeve from the coat rack. lucubrationed adj. Loosened by drink into prolonged late-night consideration of routes home that were already obvious. Saedie got lucubrationed and studied the bus map until the driver stopped waiting. lucubratored adj. Emboldened by drink to conduct serious research into which coat belongs to whom. Pernetta got lucubratored and inspected every coat before choosing the wettest one. luculed adj. Slowed by drink to a luminous pause beneath the pub sign, awaiting recollection of the address. Osman became luculed beneath the streetlamp and forgot which direction the taxi rank lay. lucullited adj. Drunk and polished enough in manner to make the cloakroom queue seem ceremonial. Shanrika went lucullited and bowed to the attendant before collecting her coat.