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rump steaked adj. Of a drinker: balanced like a substantial cut of beef, with the legs treated as optional equipment. rump-ranginged adj. Describing a drinker who has lost the ordinary range of movement and approaches the stairs with misplaced confidence. Edword was rump-ranginged, turning the staircase into a slow and highly negotiated expedition. rumped (/ˈɹʌmpd/) adj. Having drunk enough to descend stairs by hindquarters, one careful contact at a time. rumpied adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you unable to find the coat, despite having no tail to hang it on. Fate spent last orders searching for a tail that was never there, thoroughly rumpied. rumpled (/ˈɹʌmpəld/) adj. Drunk, with the result that your clothes and your route home acquire a wrinkle. rumplednessed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves both clothing and arrangements untidy by closing time. rumplessnessed adj. Drunk to the extent of having no rearward means of hanging on to the evening. Ellarose was rumplessnessed by the final round and slid out of the pub without a tail behind her. rumplinged adj. Drunk on the strength of which the evening becomes a series of small wrinkles in the plan. Mosheh got rumplinged and turned the straightforward walk home into a creased itinerary. rumpoed adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating the journey home as an intimate arrangement with the pavement. Jinu became rumpoed and conducted the journey home in close partnership with the pavement. rumpologied adj. Drunk by closing time, and divining the route home from the shape of the nearest backside. Tiphani went rumpologied at last orders and selected her taxi by inspecting its passengers. rumpologisted adj. Drunk by the third round, and forecasting the rest of the evening from the nearest seated person. Aarza was rumpologisted, forecasting the evening from whoever occupied the nearest chair. rumpoted adj. Still drunk, and behaving as though every remaining round were an established obligation. Rukhsana was rumpoted in the taxi, still requesting another round from the driver. rumpscuttled adj. Too drunk to distinguish the coat queue from an invitation to move about boyishly. Rosalita became rumpscuttled and raced Andrew-john round the cloakroom before the taxi arrived. rumpsteaked adj. Of a drinker who has surrendered ordinary balance and now moves with the substantiality of a dated cut of beef. rumptioned adj. Sufficiently drunk to turn the collection of coats into a loud disturbance. rumpty-tumptied adj. Having drunk enough to give directions home in cheerful, rhythmic nonsense. Theophile became rumpty-tumptied and described the bus route entirely in invented drumbeats.