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rickhoused adj. Sharpened by drink into a patient, wood-scented presence that expects the company to improve with age. Jalayna sat rickhoused in the corner, ageing her whisky and everyone else's patience. rickle o' banesed adj. Emboldened by drink to describe oneself as a negligible collection of bones, loudly and to strangers. rickle o' bonesed adj. Still drunk, and proceeding as a narrow, fragile arrangement whose joints have ceased consulting one another. rickle of banesed adj. Drunk and reduced to a scant collection of bones, which the company must remember to collect. rickle of bonesed adj. Too drunk to keep the body in one reliable arrangement, leaving each step to be negotiated separately. Darrelle was rickle of bonesed and treated the staircase as a series of unrelated incidents. rickled adj. Loosened by drink into a heap of separate intentions, each one requiring a different friend to retrieve. Skylia went rickled and left her phone, coat, and purse in three unrelated rooms. rickracked adj. Drunk enough to decorate every conversation with abrupt zigzags, leaving companions to follow the trim. Bunni got rickracked and stitched three unrelated subjects into one account of the evening. rickrolled (/ˈɹɪkɹəʊld/) adj. Drunk, with the result that every apparently useful link supplied to friends leads to the same song. Breccan grew rickrolled and sent the taxi number as a familiar musical ambush. rickrolleed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes being tricked into the song seem preferable to choosing another one. Kadeeja became rickrolleed and thanked Covert for the link, despite having opened it twice. rickrollered adj. Drunk to the extent of tricking each companion into the song, then forgetting whom it has already caught. Reyli was rickrollered, playing the song for each companion and forgetting who had already suffered it. rickshaed (/ˈɹɪk.ʃəd/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and requiring a willing person to convey both the passenger and the conversation. rickshaw noodlesed adj. Loosened by drink into a yellow tangle, best approached with a bowl and patience. rickshawed (/ˈɹɪkˌʃɔːd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who allows another person to determine both direction and pace. Sherridan spent the evening rickshawed, accepting guidance from whoever was nearest. rickshawmanned adj. Emboldened by drink to pull everyone else through the evening personally. rickstaddled adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of hay being put somewhere safe. Andrejs was rickstaddled by closing time and took the stairs in sections. rickstanded adj. Drunk and providing a stable framework for other people's increasingly loose arrangements. Margaret-ann stood rickstanded beside the bar while everyone else changed plans.