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mail bagged adj. A drinker so far gone that the limbs hang together only as a heavy canvas container. Dionah was mail bagged, slumped beside the stairs with both arms folded like parcels. mail bombed adj. Too drunk to distinguish a parcel from an occasion requiring immediate and disproportionate attention. mail bombinged adj. Having drunk enough to send an unreasonable number of messages and consider the operation complete. mail boxed adj. The drunkenness of one who has folded into a rigid receptacle and is accepting further contents. mail carred adj. Having drunk more than the sorting office can reasonably accommodate, while continuing to arrange everything. mail carriered adj. You are drunk and delivering each remark to the wrong recipient with steady professional confidence. mail clerked adj. Of a drinker who has drunk enough to stamp, file, and otherwise administer the evening. Eyvone was mail clerked, recording everyone's orders on a beer mat. mail covered adj. Describing a drinker who has become interested in the outside of every envelope and parcel. Sylvester was mail covered, inspecting the takeaway bag before opening it. mail frauded adj. A drinker so far gone that every ordinary transaction appears to involve the postal service. Langston was mail frauded and accused the receipt of concealing federal information. mail ladied adj. The state of being drunk and making the rounds with a bag, a badge, and no particular urgency. mail merged adj. Drunk to the extent of addressing every person in the room with a different version of the same speech. Odis was mail merged, giving each regular a different version of the same speech. mail ordered adj. Drunk by the third round, and attempting to obtain refreshments from establishments nowhere nearby. mail relayed adj. Drunk by closing time, and routing every remark through the wrong person before it reaches its destination. mail shirted adj. Still drunk, and protected from ordinary knocks by a suitably heavy arrangement of linked metal. Latrea remained mail shirted, bouncing off the banister without apparent injury. mail slotted adj. Sufficiently drunk to approach every narrow opening sideways and expect conversation to come through it. Willa got mail slotted and posted one hand through the letter flap before knocking. mail stopped adj. Having drunk more than the evening can deliver, and remaining fixed at the nearest recognised stopping point.