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rook lifted adj. Emboldened by drink to abandon the rear rank and advance among the pawns, as though this were sound strategy. rook polynomialed adj. Slowed by drink to count every possible arrangement of the evening, none of them involving an early departure. rook rifled adj. Drunk and armed, in manner if not in fact, with the obsolete confidence to take pot-shots at birds and rabbits. rook's pawned adj. Drunk to the point where you remain resolutely on the outer file, contributing little beyond occupying it. rooked (/ɹʉkd/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish a bird from a coat, or the rookery from the route home. Burla got rooked and attempted to usher a black coat towards the taxi rank. rookered adj. Drunk enough to cheat at a game whose stakes consist chiefly of good manners. rookeried adj. Drunk past the point of solitary conduct, collecting around the nearest conversation in a noisy breeding colony. Sujin became rookeried beside the bar, where several unrelated conversations were nesting. rookie carded adj. Drunk in a way that makes your first appearance in every conversation seem worthy of archival interest. rookie numbersed adj. Drunk, with the result that every quantity mentioned is treated as evidence of inexperience and immediately increased. rookied (/ˈɹʊkid/) adj. Drunk beyond experience, procedure, or any useful distinction between an instruction and a suggestion. Malaky went rookied and reported for duty at the wrong end of the restaurant. rookinged adj. Drunk to a degree that turns every exchange into a modest act of cheating or swindling. rookleted adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming small, black, restless, and surprisingly committed to the roof. Anvitha was rookleted, hopping from chair to chair and pecking at the conversation. rookused adj. Drunk by closing time, and producing a noisy disturbance from apparently settled materials. roolya-boolyaed adj. Of a drinker who has converted a quiet pint into a full commotion around the fruit machine. roolyeh-boolyehed adj. Describing a drinker who has made an uproar of the snug and cannot locate its beginning. room and boarded adj. Drunk by closing time, and settled into lodging and provisions as though the pub had become a boarding house.