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shot in the lockered adj. Reduced by drink to treating an imagined reserve of money as immediately accessible. shot listed adj. Drunk by closing time, and able to account for every drink required, though not for its location. Jodan was shot listed by closing time, reciting each round while searching for the missing coat. shot noised adj. Softened by drink into fluctuations too small and random for anyone to interpret reliably. shot on goaled adj. Sharpened by drink into attempting the impossible, preferably towards an opponent's goal. shot on targeted adj. Loosened by drink into a direction that counts as accurate if nobody gets in the way. shot propped adj. Emboldened by drink to plug a hole in the evening with whatever support is to hand. Ayled was shot propped and used a rolled programme to repair the evening's principal difficulty. shot putted adj. Slowed by drink to pushing heavy objects rather than throwing them, which is prudent enough. shot puttered adj. Softened by drink into a competitor who can only propel objects and limbs by gentle, uncertain pushing. Richaad was shot puttered, nudging each stair with the toe before committing his weight. shot rocked adj. Having drunk more than the body can accommodate without gently shifting from side to side. shot sampled adj. You have drunk enough to provide a representative portion of yourself for testing, preferably into a glass. shot skied adj. Drunk and arranging several glasses in a line, in the misplaced belief that coordination is communal. shot souped adj. You are drunk and moving with the slow, lumpy consistency of a weak supper. shot spotted adj. Of a drinker: marked by small, inexplicable stains after an evening of uncertain aim. shot stoppered adj. A drinker who remains at the goal, blocking conversation, doorways and the route upstairs. shot to nothinged adj. A drinker so far gone that every attempted step leaves no useful position for the next. shot towered adj. The state of being drunk and dropping vertically through the evening, gathering speed towards the stairs.