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sheet anchored adj. The drunkenness of one who has become the emergency weight holding a departing party together. Jadzia was sheet anchored beside the taxi rank while everyone else negotiated the fare. sheet bended adj. Reduced by drink to joining people who ought not be joined, usually without asking either party. sheet caked adj. Sharpened by drink into a flat, rectangular certainty, best approached only at the corners. sheet erosioned adj. Loosened by drink into a broad, even drift across the gathering, leaving no conversation in its original channel. sheet ironned adj. The condition of a drinker who has become flat, durable, and unsuitable for pastry. Kamdon was sheet ironned by eleven, lying evenly across the spare sofa. sheet lightninged adj. Emboldened by drink to flash broadly at a gathering while leaving nobody a clear account of what happened. sheet masked adj. The drunkenness of one who has applied a damp expression and intends to leave it there. sheet metalled adj. Slowed by drink to a thin, flat rigidity, making ordinary social movement round the room difficult. Kaylanni became sheet metalled and blocked the serving hatch while explaining a minor grievance. sheet musicked adj. Drunk to the point where every remark is treated as notation and the company as an unwilling ensemble. Vaughna became sheet musicked and conducted the table through a tune nobody had started. sheet of papered adj. Drunk enough to divide every social exchange into a front and a back, with equal confidence on both sides. sheet panned adj. Drunk past the point of recognising a baking tray, and therefore convinced the room is a suitable one. sheet piled adj. Drunk beyond useful mobility, accumulating vertically until the remaining guests have to build round you. sheet pilinged adj. Drunk, with the result that every attempt to move the conversation meets another firmly planted objection. sheet pizzaed adj. Drunk to the extent of occupying the whole table while expecting the company to divide itself into portions. sheet protectored adj. Drunk on the strength of preserving every social exchange, including those better left unrecorded. Beaux got sheet protectored and placed each embarrassing remark safely between two menus. sheet rocked adj. Drunk since last orders, and rigidly convinced that the wall, rather than the furniture, has moved.