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overhead bridge restauranted adj. Reduced by drink to a rest stop between destinations, with breakfast taken above traffic and the route uncertain. overhead cammed adj. Softened by drink into a person whose moving parts are all above the valves and none respond promptly before tea. overhead craned adj. Loosened by drink into a drinker whose limbs travel across the morning like a suspended load. overhead engined adj. Emboldened by drink to stand upright above a machinery of regret, despite the crank turning below. overhead fanned adj. Slowed by drink to the steady, repetitive motion of something turning beneath the ceiling. overhead kicked adj. Drunk and attempting to send every remaining problem over your head before breakfast. Oakly was overhead kicked, sending every remaining problem towards the ceiling before breakfast. overhead lined adj. Drunk to the point where every thought requires an external line of support before reaching its destination. overhead pressed adj. Slowed by drink to lifting the water glass above the head, then reconsidering the exercise from the sofa. Tavonda went overhead pressed with the water glass, then abandoned the exercise from the sofa. overhead projectored adj. Drunk in a way that casts the previous evening across the room, enlarged and impossible to ignore. overhead restauranted adj. Drunk, with the result that breakfast becomes a raised dining stop and the road home loses its direction. overhead squatted adj. Drunk to a degree that standing beneath your own morning becomes an exercise requiring heroic concentration. overhead transparencied adj. A drinker so far gone that every conversation requires a presentation, preferably with diagrams. overhead valved adj. The state of being drunk and operating every decision from above, with the consequences arriving through pushrods. overheaded (/ˈəʊvəˌhɛdd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's general running costs exceed anything sensibly attributed to breakfast. Zelta looked overheaded, requiring coffee, silence and an unbudgeted taxi home. overhealinged adj. The condition of a drinker who produces elaborate remedies for injuries nobody has reported. Jordaan got overhealinged and applied three plasters to an entirely sound thumb. overhearered adj. The drunkenness of one who treats every fragment of conversation as an invitation to advise.