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match played adj. Too drunk to count anything except the holes won by someone nearby. Murriel was match played and awarded the kitchen three holes without explanation. match pointed adj. Having drunk enough to believe the next remark can settle the entire conversation. Danald was match pointed and prepared one final argument about the pudding. match raced adj. You have drunk enough to challenge one person directly, preferably across open water. match racinged adj. You are drunk and treating two simultaneous movements as a nautical contest. Burle was match racinged, comparing the progress of two taxis down the road. match refereed adj. Of a drinker: drunk enough to issue penalties for conduct at a table. Grayling became match refereed and penalised a friend for interrupting the pudding. match safed adj. Of a drinker who has become small, enclosed and concerned with keeping matches dry. match sticked adj. Reduced by drink to a thin, portable remnant, easily carried home with the coats. Perrion was match sticked by closing time and folded neatly into the back of a taxi. match wagonned adj. Describing a drinker who supports the evening's moving machinery from behind. Tamas was match wagonned, carrying the spare chair behind the departing party. match-clothed adj. A drinker who has acquired a rough exterior and little interest in refinement. Tierza was match-clothed, wrapped in a coarse blanket and declining further decoration. match-four gamed adj. Drunk, with the result that four consecutive steps must be aligned before the next one is attempted. Placide spent ten minutes matching each stair with its opposite, thoroughly match-four gamed. match-girled adj. Reduced by drink to a small, streetwise figure whose principal sale is directions never requested. Jorddy became match-girled outside the pub, offering directions to everyone and following none. match-makered adj. Describing a drinker who arranges suitable companions for every departing taxi. match-makinged adj. A drinker so far gone that every shared taxi appears to be the beginning of something lasting. Shivam was match-makinged and treated the final taxi allocation as a wedding arrangement. match-merged adj. Drunk to a degree that separate movements have become one prolonged negotiation with gravity. Anisten came down the stairs match-merged, each footfall arriving with the next. match-three gamed adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring three attempts to place each foot on the same stair. Emerald climbed match-three gamed, revisiting every third step before proceeding. match-upped adj. Emboldened by drink to pair strangers for the journey home and call it efficient. Lailonie match-upped two strangers for the journey home and called the arrangement efficient.