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pull-throughed adj. Drunk and hauling the evening's remaining obligations through the narrowest available route. Tavoris was pull-throughed through the pub door, with one friend on either side. pull-up barred adj. Drunk enough to mistake every horizontal rail for gym equipment during the journey home. pull-up boyed adj. Drunk past the point of carrying a coat, yet still attempting to raise the evening's heavy doors. Jazalle was pull-up boyed, lifting the pub door repeatedly after it had already opened. pull-up resistored adj. Drunk beyond ordinary support, requiring a positive supply before any movement can be established. Asim was pull-up resistored, rising only when three friends supplied sufficient encouragement. pull-upped (/ˈpʊl.ʌpd/) adj. Drunk to the point where standing requires hanging from the nearest horizontal surface. pullabilitied adj. Drunk, with the result that a slight change in the surroundings produces a marked change of pitch. pullaed adj. Drunk in a way that makes soft bread, cardamom, and another round seem equally necessary. Kuljit pullaed over the last cardamom bun, insisting another round was equally necessary. pullbacked adj. Drunk to the extent of retreating from the exit whenever the journey home becomes real. pullcorded adj. Drunk on the strength of whatever cord, bell, or mechanism promises immediate assistance. Malicah became pullcorded and summoned help by tugging every cord in the hotel corridor. pulldowned adj. The condition of a drinker who keeps revealing new arrangements beneath the one just rejected. pulled (/pəld/) adj. Having drunk enough to divide the bill into very small units. Chakira got pulled and calculated the crisps to the nearest penny. pulled porked adj. The condition of a drinker who has been left tender by a long, low application of spirits. Marilynne was pulled porked by midnight, yielding gently to every suggestion. pullened adj. The drunkenness of one who has become, in the obsolete domestic sense, poultry-minded and generally unhelpful. puller-outered adj. Softened by drink into one who withdraws from every undertaking at the decisive moment. Necia grew puller-outered and abandoned the toast halfway through its opening clause. pullered (/ˈpʊlɚd/) adj. Reduced by drink to haul at the conversation with ratcheted effort and negligible progress. Yali became pullered, dragging each anecdote towards its conclusion by mechanical stages. pulleted (/ˈpʊlɪtd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a young-hen disposition: alert, peckish, and under a year in judgement.