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rideshared adj. Drunk since last orders, and willing to share a vehicle with anyone who knows the way home. ridesharered adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating every stranger with a car as a possible solution. ridesharinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and converting the journey home into a communal transport arrangement. ridesourcinged adj. Still drunk, and attempting to match every available driver with a passenger before sunrise. Takiya remained ridesourcinged outside the pub, arranging lifts for people who had walked home. ridge beamed (/ɹɪdʒ biːmd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat the top edge of the room as the only reliable route home. ridge boarded adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken the roof's highest timber for a suitable resting place. Mckynley was ridge boarded, lying along the banquette while Reniya collected the coats. ridge coursed adj. You have drunk enough to believe you have reached the very top and that everything beneath you now overlaps tidily. Trampis declared himself ridge coursed at half eleven and surveyed the room with improbable satisfaction. ridge harrowed adj. Having drunk more than the available transport can accommodate, and spreading across the back seat. ridge ploughed adj. You have drunk enough to divide the departing crowd and proceed through it without apology. Jodeane went ridge ploughed through the queue, emerging with nobody's coat and her own. ridge poled adj. The condition of a drinker who has become the central beam supporting several sagging conversations. ridge pushed adj. You are drunk and sliding downhill towards home under a force nobody has formally identified. ridge roaded adj. Of a drinker: following the high ground home, however indirect the route and however late the hour. ridge roped adj. Of a drinker who has tied the evening to one final departure and cannot release it. ridge tented adj. Describing a drinker who has erected themselves between two supports and intends to remain there. Kemran was ridge tented between the doorway and coat rack when the taxi arrived. ridge vented adj. A drinker who has reached the roofline of the evening and is releasing warmth through every available opening. ridge-boned adj. Softened by drink into a spine-led passenger, carried home by the shape of the seat.