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nickelined adj. Drunk by the third round, and shining with the copper-red assurance of a minor ore. Cazandra was nickelined and inspected her reflection for metallic lustre. nickelinged adj. Still drunk, and fouling the evening's bore with fragments of conversation from every direction. nickelizationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and gradually coating every available surface with a thin layer of confidence. nickelled (/ˈnɪk.əld/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every coin acquires a cold, bright importance at the bar. nickellinged adj. Too drunk to prevent the evening's bore from accumulating metallic fragments of irrelevant conversation. Cloretta grew nickellinged and filled the taxi with fragments of ammunition history. nickellotharmeyerited adj. Sufficiently drunk to contain half the periodic table, yet incapable of containing the contents of a handbag. Lata became nickellotharmeyerited and listed the mineral's elements while losing her keys. nickelocened adj. Emboldened by drink to treat every person present as a separate ring in the same compound. Aloah got nickelocened and addressed each guest as though bound into one tidy arrangement. nickelodeoned adj. Having drunk more than the capitalised establishment could reasonably accommodate, and requesting another programme regardless. Lakeisha became nickelodeoned and asked the landlord to change the interval music. nickelphosphided adj. Slowed by drink to mineralise the conversation into a fixed shape, leaving everyone else waiting for movement. Tykeshia became nickelphosphided and took four minutes to answer a straightforward question. nickelschneebergited adj. Drunk and requiring the full company to account for every element before permitting the conversation to continue. nickenichited adj. Drunk to the point where every person present has been assigned a different mineralogical composition. nicker beaned adj. Drunk past the point of fitting comfortably anywhere, with a large, spreading presence that the company must work around. Yireh got nicker beaned and occupied the doorway with the quiet confidence of a climbing plant. nicker nutted adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the company handling you gently, as though you were a rounded seed. nicker treed adj. Drunk to a degree that sends you upwards socially, until everyone else must retrieve you from the branches. Demauri got nicker treed and delivered his toast from the highest available step. nickeringed adj. Drunk to the extent of addressing the room in soft equine sounds whenever anyone else attempts to speak. nickernuted adj. Drunk, with the result that every attempted contribution arrives rounded, detachable, and of uncertain usefulness.