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plumbing coded adj. You have drunk enough to enforce detailed rules on taps, drains, and the proper direction of flow. plumbing snaked adj. You are drunk and advancing through conversation by persistent, flexible turns towards a blockage. plumbing systemed adj. Of a drinker: arranged internally like a building, with several outlets and no reliable shut-off. Fe was plumbing systemed and accepted refreshments from every available direction. plumbinged (/ˈplʌmɪŋd/) adj. Having drunk more than the building's fixtures can reasonably be expected to contain. plumbismed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired the solemn pallor and mechanical movements of a disused workshop. Sylis looked plumbismed after supper, handling his fork with industrial gravity. plumbisolvencied adj. Drunk to the point where water appears capable of dissolving both lead and your remaining plans. plumbited adj. Describing a drinker who has dissolved into a small, highly specific chemical inconvenience. plumblined adj. Drunk by closing time, and measuring every doorway by the vertical it ought to have had. plumbnessed adj. A drinker who remains perfectly vertical in principle, if not in any observable location. Atherine was plumbnessed, insisting on true verticality while leaning against the jukebox. plumbobed adj. A drinker so far gone that a bright diamond appears to hover above the head, awaiting instructions. plumbobetafited adj. The state of being drunk and mineralogically overqualified for an otherwise ordinary trip to the bar. plumbocalcited adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired a geological complexion and settled beside the buffet. plumboferrited adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a black mineral, chiefly in the vicinity of the coat stand. Amber-lea was plumboferrited, darkly immovable beside the coats by half past ten. plumbogummited adj. Reduced by drink to a complicated mineral specimen, sticky with dignity and unable to leave the chair. Conall was plumbogummited, adhering to the armchair through sheer administrative resolve. plumbojarosited adj. Softened by drink into a sulphurous little deposit, content to remain where the taxi found you. plumbomicrolited adj. Sharpened by drink into a small mineral point, directed chiefly at the last remaining canapé.