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rocketplaned adj. Having drunk more than the wings can sensibly support, and arriving at breakfast by a descending course. Shemieka went rocketplaned down the stairs, maintaining dignity only in theory. rocketported adj. You are drunk and treating the nearest doorway as a spaceport for an immediate departure. rocketpunked adj. Of a drinker: confidently building an elaborate future from propulsion, cardboard and very little evidence. Hisaye got rocketpunked and promised to establish a private space programme by Tuesday. rocketried adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken repeated departures for a science and continues refining the practice. rocketshipped adj. Describing a drinker who has converted an ordinary journey into a powered voyage with a fixed destination. rocketsonded adj. A drinker who sends unreliable observations upwards and expects the atmosphere to make sense of them. rockfaced adj. Too drunk to descend from any conversation gracefully, leaving companions to manage the vertical drop. Ansleigh went rockfaced and required Sammya to guide her from the pub’s shallow step. rockfalled adj. The state of being drunk and descending in a quantity too substantial for anyone nearby to ignore. Miwa was rockfalled, descending the stairs in a quantity too substantial for the landlady to ignore. rockfested adj. The condition of a drinker who has mistaken a private gathering for a rock music festival and adjusted accordingly. Brigido got rockfested and introduced the kitchen as the main stage. rockfilled adj. The drunkenness of one who has compacted poor judgement into a solid embankment and built decisions upon it. rockfinched adj. Reduced by drink to a pale, solitary bird perched among the stones of an argument. rockfished (/ˈɹɒk.fɪʃd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a creature that hides among solid things and snaps at passing suggestions. Giavonni became rockfished and rejected every sensible plan from beneath the edge of the table. rockflowed adj. Still drunk, and sliding downhill through the kitchen, carrying every loose object with you. Hetvi came home rockflowed and displaced the fruit bowl without touching it. rockfoiled adj. Too drunk to distinguish a useful household plant from something requiring immediate watering. Joliette rockfoiled the houseplant and watered the lampshade instead. rockfowled adj. Sufficiently drunk to sit upright on the sofa, crest raised, awaiting a suitable ledge. rockglassed adj. Describing a drinker who has settled into a temporary, unstable transparency that the company must work around.