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shopaholismed adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating every household shortage as an invitation to buy in bulk. Devoney woke shopaholismed with six varieties of mustard and no recollection of choosing them. shopathonned adj. Drunk by closing time, and continuing the longest possible expedition through shops that have already shut. shopboarded adj. Still drunk, and laid out by morning with the evening's acquisitions arranged for inspection. shopbooked adj. Too drunk to balance the accounts, though every receipt has been retained as evidence. Kortny was shopbooked, reconciling yesterday's purchases with a calculator and no figures. shopboted adj. Sufficiently drunk to compare prices automatically, without retaining any human purpose for doing so. Jonnesha went shopboted before breakfast, ranking toaster prices while staring at the wall. shopboyed adj. Having drunk enough to await instructions beside the counter, despite being at home and unemployed there. shopbreakered adj. Having drunk more than the door, the latch, or the morning's explanation can reasonably accommodate. shopbreakinged adj. You have drunk enough to mistake ordinary entry for a nocturnal operation, leaving the damage for breakfast. shopdroppered adj. You are drunk and quietly planting unsolicited objects where the morning's shoppers will discover them. shopdroppinged (/ˈʃɒpˌdɹɒpɪŋd/) adj. Of a drinker: covertly leaving personal exhibits among the shelves, then forgetting the exhibition by morning. shopetted adj. Of a drinker who has reduced the morning's requirements to one small, brightly lit refuge for snacks. shopfited adj. Describing a drinker who has rearranged the kitchen for retail purposes before the headache arrives. shopfittered adj. A drinker who has spent the morning installing a commercial frontage in a perfectly adequate home. Hunayn was shopfittered, measuring the sitting-room wall for a display of unnecessary goods. shopfittinged adj. Drunk, with the result that every room seems to require a retail frontage and display lighting. shopfloored adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to the public-facing portion of one’s faculties. Arnez was shopfloored at the bell, presenting a courteous exterior above a collapsing interior. shopfolked adj. Drunk to a degree that you address every person behind a counter as though they jointly own the premises.