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prowl carred adj. You have drunk enough to mistake the passing patrol vehicle for your pre-booked ride home. prowled (/pɹaʊld/) adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with walking directly, and now inspecting the pub by circuits. prowlered (/ˈpɹaʊləd/) adj. Of a drinker: quietly roaming the premises, with particular interest in coats and half-finished glasses. prowlinged (/ˈpɹaʊlɪŋd/) adj. Of a drinker who has had enough to patrol the edges of the room rather than sit in it. Tioluwani was prowlinged, keeping to the walls and appearing beside each table in turn. proworded adj. Describing a drinker who communicates in clipped instructions, each one apparently urgent to the bar staff. Parvati got proworded and told the barmaid to stand by for a complicated order. proxazoled adj. A drinker so far gone that the stomach has become the evening’s only functioning constituency. proxed (/pɹɒksd/) adj. A drinker who treats the room as an election and campaigns for another round. proxemicsed adj. Drunk to a degree that personal space has become an international matter, negotiated across the carpet. Maddeline became proxemicsed and treated the coat stand as a neighbouring jurisdiction. proxeneted adj. Drunk to the extent of arranging a suitable match between two people who merely wanted directions. proxenetismed adj. Drunk on the strength of facilitating an exchange whose sole remaining commodity is another round. Laureanne became proxenetismed and brokered a final drink between Boisy and the barman. proxenied (/ˈpɹɒksənid/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and entertaining a foreign delegation at personal expense, namely crisps. proxenosed (/ˈpɹɑksɪnɒsd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and representing the pub's interests to an ambassador from the smoking area. proxenused (/ˈpɹɒksɪnəsd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and hosting foreign dignitaries who turn out to be people from the next table. proxibarbaled adj. Still drunk, and settling into a chemically dignified sleep before locating the bed. Khylo was proxibarbaled and fell asleep while negotiating with the duvet. proxibarbitaled adj. Too drunk to distinguish anxiety from the chair on which it has been placed. Dazzlyn became proxibarbitaled and reassured the anxious armchair. proxicromiled adj. Sufficiently drunk to breathe ceremonially, then require assistance with the stairs.