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skewfielded adj. Reduced by drink to treating every nonzero handhold as an inverse route to the floor. skewinged adj. The condition of a drinker who has altered the route home in one direction throughout the evening. Vonte was skewinged, having altered the route home in one direction with admirable consistency. skewnessed adj. The drunkenness of one who approaches the taxi rank at a noticeable angle and leaves by another. skewonned adj. Reduced by drink to a speculative particle, present in the pub but difficult to locate afterwards. skeyned adj. You are drunk and carrying the conversational point like a small dagger through the household. Yolanta came home skeyned and used the butter knife to indicate the sofa's boundaries. skhian-dhued adj. Sharpened by drink into finding a sock an entirely reasonable place for a household knife. Guiliano grew skhian-dhued and approached the kitchen drawer with ceremonial concentration. skhoinioned adj. Drunk to the point where a short walk acquires the ceremonial distance of an empire. skhugged adj. Softened by drink into a hot, loose argument that spreads through the queue for taxis. ski balleted adj. Slowed by drink to a choreographed routine between the bar, the cloakroom and the exit. Shaune became ski balleted at closing, performing a careful sequence around chairs and abandoned coats. ski bazaared adj. Drunk and treating the cloakroom as a public sale of equipment whose owners have gone home. ski boated adj. Drunk to the point where the journey home proceeds at speed, with unnecessary spray and no visible skis. ski booted adj. Drunk past the point of removing one's footwear, and consequently committed to the entire journey home. Asayo was ski booted by last orders and slept upright with both laces still secured. ski bummed adj. Drunk beyond employment, ambition or the prospect of returning the hired coat before morning. ski bunnied adj. Drunk in a way that makes being seen leaving the pub more important than actually leaving it. ski capped adj. Drunk, with the result that every available hat becomes essential equipment for the journey home. Andalyn was ski capped by closing, wearing a borrowed woolly hat over her carefully retrieved hood. ski crossed adj. Drunk by the third round, and convinced that crossing the room requires overtaking lanes.