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road warriored adj. Slowed by drink to a frequent traveller between sofa and kitchen, conducting business with the water glass. Kewanda went road warriored and made several unproductive journeys to the fridge. road worked adj. Drunk by closing time, and requiring prolonged attention before any route home can reopen. Quinasia was road worked, while Garvit spent half an hour clearing a path to the taxi. road-agented adj. Drunk by the third round, and robbing fellow travellers of time, patience, and occasionally their crisps. road-goosed adj. Having drunk more than a respectable amount and begun honking greetings across the bar. Hogan got road-goosed and answered every toast with a loud, cheerful honk. road-hogged adj. Drunk beyond accepting that other people may also require a lane, a chair, or the barman's attention. road-rail vehicled adj. You are drunk and moving between the pavement and the pub's imaginary railway with unsuitable versatility. road-railered adj. Of a drinker: able to proceed on foot or by imaginary track, provided the surface is level. road-rollered adj. Too drunk to rise from the sofa without first compacting the cushions beneath you. roadabilitied adj. Of a drinker who has lost the quality of being safely roadable, though the bar remains navigable. roadbanked adj. Describing a drinker who has settled against the roadside earthwork as though it were a rural seat. Francita got roadbanked beside the hedge and declared the verge perfectly comfortable. roadbased adj. A drinker who has become the firm lower layer on which the rest of the evening rests. roadbeded adj. A drinker so far gone that the pavement has become a prepared foundation rather than a route. Mikalyn was roadbeded outside the club, settled firmly into the gravel. roadblocked adj. The condition of a drinker who has become an obstruction at the most inconvenient point in the pub. roadbooked adj. The drunkenness of one who narrates the route home in diagrams, symbols and increasingly doubtful arrows. roadbridged adj. Slowed by drink to a careful crossing of every threshold, with pedestrians granted equal right of way. roadbuildered adj. Reduced by drink to constructing a route through furniture, stools and whatever else lies ahead.