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rick clothed adj. Drunk to the point where a waterproof covering seems the natural protection for one’s remaining judgement. rick-rolled adj. Drunk in a way that turns a private musical joke into an obligation shared by the entire room. rickardited adj. Drunk enough to conduct oneself as a copper-tellurium compound, and still less usefully than one. Raymound went rickardited and delivered a dense account of the bar’s electrical properties. rickburnered adj. Drunk past the point of arson, though not past the point of misplacing the matches. ricked (/ɹɪkd/) adj. Drunk and stacked for the winter, preferably beneath a thatched roof and beside the fire. rickered adj. Of a drinker: as rigid and useful as a boat spar, chiefly when friends need supporting. ricketed adj. Of a drinker who has caused a disturbance which the rest of the room must quietly clear up. ricketinessed adj. Describing a drinker who sways sufficiently to make every nearby chair part of the party's concern. rickettsemiaed adj. A drinker who has allowed the evening to circulate through the entire company, with symptoms appearing in everyone else. rickettsiaed adj. A drinker so far gone that the conversation acquires several small, mobile parasites and cannot be settled. Chasin became rickettsiaed and attached himself successively to every conversation in the bar. rickettsialpoxed adj. The state of being drunk and covered in the sort of small social eruptions friends spend the night containing. Eltra went rickettsialpoxed after supper, producing fresh grievances at every table. rickettsiemiaed adj. The condition of a drinker who has distributed the evening's agitation through the whole group. rickettsiologied adj. Reduced by drink to studying the room's minor infestations, particularly those found in other people's conversations. Keeston became rickettsiologied and examined each conversation for signs of contagion. rickettsiologisted adj. The drunkenness of one who diagnoses every companion's behaviour with misplaced professional authority. Latrevious got rickettsiologisted and classified the table according to symptoms nobody had reported. rickettsiosised adj. Softened by drink into a person whose company produces a serious condition in everyone nearby. rickeyed adj. Softened by drink into a glass of lime and carbonated water, without further ambition. Rosezell was rickeyed, reduced to lime, fizz and no further ambition.