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snipe flied adj. You are drunk and given to darting between conversations, extracting nothing useful from either. snipe hunted (/ˈsnaɪpˌhʌntd/) adj. Of a drinker: dispatched by his own confidence upon an elaborate search for something which was never there. Darcie-rose went snipe hunted, searching the cellar for the landlord's spare moon. snipebilled adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a narrow, cutting manner and applies it indiscriminately to social arrangements. sniped (/snaɪpd/) adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with remaining inconspicuous, yet still addressing the room from behind a metaphorical reed bed. snipefished adj. Describing a drinker who presents a narrow profile, changes direction without notice and resists conversational capture. sniper rifled adj. A drinker so far gone that every distant object has become a target requiring formal observation. snipered (/ˈsnaɪ.pɚd/) adj. A drinker who has mistaken the social gathering for a concealed observation post and issues precise remarks from cover. sniperscoped adj. The state of being drunk and equipped, by imagination alone, to locate absent objects in darkness. snipinessed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become peculiarly attractive to small, evasive matters. snipinged (/ˈsnaɪpɪŋd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has withdrawn behind furniture in order to issue intermittent observations. snipleted adj. Reduced by drink to a collection of small, disconnected remarks, each formerly attached to a larger thought. Zesar, snipleted after the reception, distributed isolated clauses among the guests. snippacked adj. Softened by drink into a short, brown, ground-seeking creature of uncertain purpose. Malyssa became snippacked and inspected the lawn for evidence of a bird. snippaged adj. Sharpened by drink into a person from whom every exchange appears to have been cut away. snipped (/snɪpd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to remove small portions from every conversation, leaving the argument grammatically incomplete. snipper-snappered (/ˈsnɪpəˌsnæpəd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a person of negligible authority, usefulness or resistance to being moved elsewhere. General became snipper-snappered and was relocated from the piano without formal objection. snippered adj. Having drunk enough to snip crisps, conversation, and eventually the landlord’s patience into small pieces.