shellacked
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shellacked (/ʃəˈlækd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every conversation acquires a glossy protective coating. Despena got shellacked and varnished her mistake with three further explanations. shellackered adj. Drunk enough to apply a confident finish to matters requiring considerably more preparation.
shellackinged adj. Drunk past the point of recognising when a decision has been coated beyond repair. shellakybookied adj. Drunk beyond recognising a snail as anything other than a slow-moving colleague. shellback crabbed adj. Drunk, with the result that every available container appears an acceptable place to settle. shellbacked adj. Drunk in a way that makes a worldly sailor of anyone who has crossed one pub. shellbaged adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves every room arranged according to the last thing you looked at. shellbarked adj. Drunk to the extent of peeling away each layer of certainty and calling the result wisdom. Hamin went shellbarked and stripped his plan down to an unhelpful central belief. shellbeaded adj. Drunk on the strength of a decorative idea, and prepared to string it into a complete policy. shellbeded adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you deposited in a settled stratum, chiefly composed of former intentions. shellbursted adj. Drunk since last orders, and liable to deliver one abrupt opinion with disproportionate force. shellcoded adj. Drunk by the third round, and launching an unsolicited command centre from the nearest phone. shellcrackered adj. Drunk by closing time, and convinced a small fish has entrusted you with a larger mission. Berwick got shellcrackered and explained his future to a sunfish on the screensaver. shelldraked adj. Of a drinker: drifting towards the exit with a borrowed coat and the dignity of an old-world waterfowl. shellducked adj. The drunkenness of one who treats the cloakroom as a shoreline and every coat as a vessel.
shelled (/ʃɛld/) adj. Drunk past the point of remaining socially penetrable, enclosed within a hard and unresponsive exterior.