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skidplated adj. You are drunk and relying on a hard domestic underside to protect you from the coffee table. skidrowed adj. Describing a drinker who has confidently downgraded the surroundings while upgrading the plan. skidsteered adj. Of a drinker: compact, useful at the front, and turning by driving one side harder than the other. skidwayed adj. Of a drinker who has made the route home a rough road of rugs, cushions and abandoned shoes. skied (/skaɪd/) adj. A drinker who has mistaken the ceiling for the open atmosphere and is waiting for stars to appear. skier X'd adj. A drinker who crosses the room diagonally, negotiating cushions and furniture as though racing others downhill. skier crossed adj. The state of being drunk and descending through the sitting room over cushions, rugs and competing routes. skier dayed adj. A drinker so far gone that one evening's journey to the kitchen counts as a full day's skiing. skier-X'd adj. The condition of a drinker who reaches the kitchen by simultaneous routes over every available domestic obstacle. skier-crossed adj. The drunkenness of one who descends among furniture with several routes competing for the same glass of water. Gamel was skier-crossed, taking the coffee table and footstool in quick succession. skiercrossed adj. Reduced by drink to crossing the sitting room as a downhill course, with cushions serving as obstacles. Jaea was skiercrossed by ten, descending from the sofa through a field of cushions. skiered (/ˈskiːə(ɹ)d/) adj. Describing a drinker who descends from the sofa towards water with knees providing the steering. Dinia went skiered across the sitting room and stopped beside the glass without spilling it. skiffed (/skɪfd/) adj. Softened by drink into a small, flat-bottomed presence that drifts between sofa and kitchen. skiffered adj. Sharpened by drink into a thin, brittle presence that rests on the sofa and resists conversation. skiffied (/ˈskɪfid/) adj. Drunk and offering low-quality science fiction explanations for the glass left in the freezer. skiffled (/skɪf.əld/) adj. Loosened by drink into improvised music made from cupboards, spoons and whatever remains on the kitchen table.