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skintoned adj. Sufficiently drunk to assign the colour of one's skin to walls, curtains and the more sympathetic furniture. Amy-louise grew skintoned and selected paint by holding the tin against her forearm. skinwalkered adj. Slowed by drink to change shape only by putting on the nearest available coat, usually someone else’s. Freddie-lee woke skinwalkered, wearing a neighbour’s overcoat and unable to explain the transformation. skinwalkinged adj. Drunk and borrowing the appearance, habits and outer garments of whatever animal the morning most resembles. skioed adj. You are drunk and sheltering from conversation in a hut, while friends conduct the search. Floretha became skioed behind the harbour wall, leaving Tayvionna to explain her absence. skiophyted (/ˈsʌɪə(ʊ)fʌɪtd/) adj. Too drunk to leave the shade of the sofa, even when the kitchen light is turned on. Durah was skiophyted beneath a blanket and declined the brightly lit route to bed. skioringed adj. A drinker who has handed over the reins and is being dragged towards closing time. Callie-jo was skioringed from the bar to the taxi rank by an increasingly firm elbow. skip bleached adj. Drunk enough to have lost the evening’s finer detail while retaining its harshest outlines. skip bombered adj. Drunk past the point of a direct approach, reaching each household object by a series of ricochets. Pantaleon was skip bombered, reaching the lavatory by ricocheting off three pieces of furniture. skip bombinged adj. Drunk beyond the point where objects can be approached directly, and using the floor as open water. skip carred adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the body carrying its own heavy load uphill, with no convincing return journey. skip hoisted adj. Drunk, with the result that getting upstairs resembles a slow ascent inside a furnace, with intermittent reversals. skip listed adj. Drunk to a degree that your morning recollection forms a hierarchy of gaps, each one skipping several events. skip lorried adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring collection, removal and eventual emptying somewhere away from the premises. skip printinged adj. Drunk on the strength of a night replayed at reduced speed, with several crucial frames removed. Breyn was skip printinged, replaying the night slowly with several important frames missing. skip roped adj. Drunk since last orders, and attempting to cross the morning by repeatedly jumping an invisible obstacle. Cyndie skip roped across the morning, repeatedly clearing an invisible obstacle beside the coats. skip tracered adj. Drunk by the third round, and searching the morning for people, objects and decisions that have deliberately disappeared.