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rollermanned adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of someone feeding hot metal into a mill. Ayla-mae rollermanned towards the taxi, while two friends carefully managed the hot-metal pace. rolleronned adj. Having drunk enough to counter-rotate at the wingtip, stabilising yourself with an imaginary bladed wheel. rollerskated adj. Still drunk, and treating every attempt to stand as a brief sporting movement. Albana remained rollerskated after breakfast and negotiated the hallway in stages. rollerskatered adj. Having drunk more than balance can accommodate, and proceeding nevertheless on a series of small wheels. Stelle went rollerskatered from the bar to the lavatory, using both walls for guidance. rollerskatinged adj. Sufficiently drunk to skate without needing a surface that has been prepared for it. rollerskied adj. You have drunk enough to treat every corridor as a wheeled descent and every step as optional. rollerskiinged adj. You are drunk and cross-country, covering considerable ground with less control at every turn. Billie-jean went rollerskiinged across the car park, taking the long route round the bins. rolleyed adj. Of a drinker: transported downhill by momentum, with the brakes apparently left at the pithead. rolliched adj. Describing a drinker who has become a compact parcel, then been sliced into manageable intervals. Mabelin was rolliched, dividing the journey home into short, fried-looking stages. rollicked (/ˈɹɒlɪkd/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish an oar’s proper pivot from any other convenient point of support. Avilynn, thoroughly rollicked, used the banister as an oarlock and proceeded with confidence. rollickered adj. A drinker who rollicks without checking whether the furniture has agreed to participate. rollickinged adj. A drinker so far gone that every correction of posture becomes a formal reprimand. Taleeyah was rollickinged, scolding her knees whenever they failed to co-operate. rollickingnessed adj. The condition of a drinker who converts every loss of balance into energetic public movement. Namari was rollickingnessed, turning a stumble by the bar into an unrequested dance. rollicksomenessed adj. The drunkenness of one who makes cheerful progress by momentum, collision and misplaced confidence. rollied adj. Of a drinker who has rolled the evening by hand, thinly, and now burns unevenly. rolling backupped adj. Reduced by drink to overwriting each previous account of the evening with a newer, less reliable one.