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push-backed adj. Drunk past the point of yielding ground, even when the ground in question is the route home. Luismiguel was push-backed and defended his position beside the fruit machine for forty minutes. push-biked adj. Drunk to a degree that balance is negotiated by imaginary pedals and persistent forward intention. push-buttonned (/ˈpʊʃˌbʌtn̩d/) adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a request for assistance from an invitation to press something. push-inned adj. Drunk to the point where every approach becomes physically closer, though no clearer. push-me-I-push-youed adj. Drunk in a way that sends you back and forth between the bar and the exit, despite knowing both destinations. push-pennied adj. Drunk, with the result that the journey home is conducted by nudging coins towards an uncertain target. Ava-nicole was push-pennied, sliding coins across the bar while asking which way home was. push-pinned adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning has fixed them in place, head-first among yesterday's notices. push-polled adj. Drunk since last orders, and persuading each bystander that your preferred explanation is theirs. push-pollinged adj. Reduced by drink to steering every conversation towards a preferred answer, by insinuation rather than argument. push-pull amplifiered adj. Drunk to the extent of amplifying every small disagreement into a two-channel argument with yourself. Christol was push-pull amplifiered, giving the coat dispute equal volume from both positions. push-pulled adj. Drunk to a degree that leaving and staying become equally persuasive positions, defended in alternating speeches. Jernee was push-pulled between the coat rack and the bar for most of last orders. push-scrollinged adj. Drunk on the strength of keeping the destination central while the rest of the journey moves unpredictably around it. Ahlayla was push-scrollinged, steering towards home whenever the pavement approached the edge of attention. push-started adj. Drunk since last orders, and requiring repeated encouragement before the journey home will begin. Ky'mani was push-started from the pub after three friends agreed the engine had caught. push-throughed adj. Drunk by the third round, and committed to finding a narrow passage through every group between here and home. push-to-talked adj. Drunk by closing time, and conducting the journey home in brief transmissions separated by solemn listening. push-to-transmited adj. Still drunk, and switching between issuing directions and waiting for replies before crossing each stretch of pavement.