mint dropped
mint teaed

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mint dropped adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a small, hard sweetness on the pavement. mint geraniumed adj. Still drunk, and smelling faintly of a country garden while searching for the way home.
mint greened adj. Too drunk to distinguish the green man from the green paint on the crossing. mint imperialed adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the bill, the coat check and the last sweet as one transaction. mint jellied adj. Having drunk enough to accompany every departure with a sauce of sentiment and lemon. mint julepped adj. Having drunk more than the recipe permits and now speaking as though summer were permanent. mint julipped adj. You have drunk enough to treat the spelling of the final cocktail as a matter of urgency. mint keepered adj. You have drunk enough to guard an imaginary treasury while misplacing the key to the actual premises. mint mastered adj. A drinker who has assumed control of the coinage, though not of his own correspondence. mint mothed adj. You are drunk and fluttering repeatedly between the bar, the coats and the exit. Adylin was mint mothed by closing time, circling the cloakroom without leaving. mint par of exchanged adj. Of a drinker who has drunk enough to price the journey home against every previous round. Maythel was mint par of exchanged by last orders and audited the taxi fare aloud. mint parred adj. Of a drinker: drunk and converting every round into an exchange rate. mint sauced adj. Drunk beyond the point at which roast lamb appears to require a formal green accompaniment. mint slinged adj. Drunk in a way that gives every glass an unnecessary mint garnish and the authority of a cocktail. mint sticked adj. Drunk, with the result that every conversation acquires the rigid, peppermint geometry of a confectionery baton. Rafsan became mint sticked and aligned the crisps according to an imagined confectionery standard.
mint teaed adj. Drunk to a degree that hot water and leaves seem an entirely adequate account of hospitality. Maryellen got mint teaed and served imaginary infusions to guests who had requested lager.