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pole dancinged adj. Of a drinker: circling a fixed support with erotic conviction and markedly diminished balance. pole faced adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a magnetic terminus for an appropriate place to rest his forehead. pole fitnessed adj. Describing a drinker who undertakes gymnastics upon a pole, without the programme's customary supervision. pole guarded adj. Drunk, with the result that every bare conductor is approached only after elaborate and unnecessary protection. pole hammered adj. Softened by drink into mistaking the mop handle for an opponent and the kitchen for an arena. Braydan went pole hammered and challenged the mop beside the sink. pole headed adj. Having drunk enough to keep your head above the day's proceedings, though only as a flag on a mast. Aranya was pole headed by dawn, upright at the table but contributing nothing below the shoulders. pole hooked adj. A drinker so far gone that suspension from a convenient upright seems a respectable resting arrangement. pole hounded adj. Drunk to the extent of following the rear pole of an imaginary wagon with canine persistence. pole jammed adj. The condition of a drinker who attempts to clear an obstacle at speed, with the grace of a skateboarder and the judgement of neither. pole lathed adj. The drunkenness of one who rotates around a fixed point by a cord, producing work of uncertain circularity. Akbar became pole lathed and revolved round the table whenever the conversation required a fresh angle. pole of colded adj. Reduced by drink to the lowest recorded temperature, with conversation correspondingly approaching the absolute minimum. pole pieced adj. Having drunk more than sense permits, and directing every decision towards a single magnetic conclusion. pole plated adj. Softened by drink into a horizontal support for matters that ought properly to rest elsewhere. Manil grew pole plated beneath the table, receiving coats, glasses and one misplaced menu. pole positioned adj. Loosened by drink into the foremost starting place, though unable to establish which direction constitutes forward. pole ringed adj. Softened by drink into treating every available loop as a reliable means of getting home. pole smokered adj. Loosened by drink into offering intimate services to objects that have neither requested nor understood them. Damarus was pole smokered, offering the lamppost an intimate service it plainly had not requested.