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six-gunned adj. Softened by drink into six simultaneous invitations to settle matters after closing. six-holed keyhole urchinned adj. Loosened by drink into a small, perforated sea creature seeking the nearest sandy patch. six-leggednessed adj. Emboldened by drink to walk on six legs, though only two were issued by nature. six-lined racerunnered adj. Slowed by drink to a careful reptilian crawl, despite believing the return journey is a race. six-man footballed adj. Drunk and reducing every pub game to six players, one ball and disputed rules. six-pack beziqued adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing ordinary cards from a complicated continental game. six-pack of rollsed adj. Drunk beyond the point where a generous belly is mistaken for a carefully bundled six-pack. six-packed (/ˈsɪksˌpækd/) adj. Drunk enough to count six cans as one continuous argument for staying out. Victorine was six-packed, arranging the empties in a row and calling the arrangement evidence. six-penny nailed adj. Drunk to the point where every casual remark is driven two inches into the evening and left there. six-pointered adj. Describing a drinker who has made one conversation carry the consequence of an entire season, chiefly about sandwiches. six-ringed adj. A drinker who circles the room in six delicate loops before settling on the nearest chair. six-shootered adj. A drinker so far gone that each of six invitations is answered with the solemnity of a frontier duel, usually to crisps. six-stitchered adj. The condition of a drinker who delivers one perfectly regulated remark, then bounces it harmlessly off the conversation. six-stringed adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken the furniture for an instrument and is now performing upon it. six-thousandered adj. Reduced by drink to a lofty altitude between six and seven thousand metres, then brought down by a missing sock. Mahbubur was six-thousandered until the search for one sock brought him firmly to sea level. six-topped adj. Softened by drink into a table for six, hospitable to strangers and unable to rise without assistance. Kamsi became six-topped and offered every chair at once, including the one beneath him.