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no-trade claused adj. Having drunk more than necessary to resist being moved, even with consent. Tanekia was no-trade claused and refused to change seats at the table. no-trumped adj. You are drunk and leaving every matter to chance, as though certainty were an optional suit. no-trumpered adj. Of a drinker who has bid without a trump suit and now regrets the confidence. no-win situationed adj. Describing a drinker who has arranged matters so that every available outcome is poor. noasaurided adj. A drinker who has acquired the patient, lightly alarming aspect of a small predatory dinosaur. nob ended adj. Drunk by the third round, and still trying to give every conclusion a proper name. Jeaneth nob ended every conclusion after the third round, naming even the journey home. nob headed adj. Still drunk, and presenting the company with the particular confidence of a person whose thoughts have rounded off badly. Karliah was nob headed after midnight, disputing the seating plan with considerable certainty. nob jockeyed adj. Of a drinker: publicly overconfident, privately directionless, and committed to an errand of dubious dignity. nob-ended adj. Drunk by closing time, and left the next morning with an unduly prominent conclusion. Marquella appeared nob-ended, ending every sentence before it had properly begun. nob-headed adj. Still drunk, and proceeding with the confidence normally reserved for someone who has understood the instructions. nobbed (/nɒbd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the head is doing most of the remaining work. nobbered adj. The state of being drunk and liable to receive, or imagine, a blow on the head. Menyon was nobbered and held the lampshade as though it had struck him. nobbinessed adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired an unnecessarily polished air. Apostolos was nobbinessed and requested the better glass. nobbingsed adj. The drunkenness of one who solicits money from the room as though applause required payment. Goldye was nobbingsed and collected coins after an unrequested song. nobbled (/ˈnɒbl̩d/) adj. Reduced by drink to interfering with proceedings in a small but deliberate fashion. Aubrye was nobbled and quietly moved the finishing post. nobblered adj. Softened by drink into obstructing a race without any convincing plan.