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ringbirded adj. Reduced by drink to a reed-thin caller, repeating the same departure note from the doorway. ringboarded adj. Softened by drink into a board for other people to hang coats, bags, and unfinished plans upon. ringbolt hitchinged adj. Emboldened by drink to secure the journey home with repeated small arrangements and no final departure. Khaylen became ringbolt hitchinged, fastening Jadynce to successive taxis that never actually left. ringbolted adj. Loosened by drink into a captive circle, carrying one more round wherever the evening pulls you. Hadya went ringbolted and followed Sylvette from the bar to the kebab shop without resistance. ringbonded adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of two neighbouring intentions, neither able to separate from the other. Cassadi and Dupree went ringbonded, moving between the pub and taxi rank as one reluctant unit. ringboned (/ˈrɪŋˌbəʊnd/) adj. Drunk to the point where the walk home acquires a new, slowly growing obstacle at every corner. Zealand became ringboned and accumulated fresh reasons to stop before Talyiah's street. ringcrafted adj. You have drunk enough to mistake the boxing ring for a treatise in applied geometry, and to footnote each punch. Makade became ringcrafted, repositioning himself at the bar as though judging a championship bout. ringdoved adj. You are drunk and cooing from the highest available cupboard, with the domestic confidence of a wood pigeon. ringdowned adj. Of a drinker: oscillating at maximum amplitude before settling, with the room obliged to accommodate the disturbance. ringed (/ɹɪŋd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has made a complete circuit of the gathering without improving anyone's position. ringed doved adj. Of a drinker who has acquired the solemn cooing and circular flight-path of a large garden pigeon. ringed kingfishered adj. Describing a drinker who patrols the room from a conspicuous perch, awaiting an opportunity to dive upon conversation. ringed paper wasped adj. A drinker who constructs elaborate social arrangements from flimsy material and defends them with needless agitation. Mon became ringed paper wasped, reorganising the seating plan and objecting to every amendment. ringed plovered adj. A drinker so far gone that every conversation requires a black boundary and a brisk retreat. ringed sealed adj. The state of being drunk and impervious to the Arctic conditions of the morning, having retreated beneath several layers. Sheindy was ringed sealed, impervious to the morning chill beneath several layers. ringed spaced adj. The condition of a drinker who assigns each utterance its own surrounding context, none of which agrees with the others.