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soakawayed adj. Drunk since last orders, and draining conversation directly into the nearest available silence. Timm became soakawayed and disappeared into the hedge after one final explanation. soaked (/səʊkd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that ordinary immersion seems a sensible description of the evening. soaker padded adj. Drunk by closing time, and requiring protection against the consequences of one further idea. soakered adj. Drunk by the third round, and absorbing advice without retaining any of it. Dalee was soakered and took in three directions before walking the opposite way. soakinged adj. Still drunk, and treating every explanation as an invitation to be dunked more deeply into it. soaled adj. A drinker so far gone that each step seems to have acquired its own separate underside. soamed adj. Too drunk to lead anything except a plough, and even that only in a circle. soap acaciaed adj. Having drunk more than sense permits, and proposing a tropical shrub whenever cleaning is mentioned. soap barred adj. You have drunk enough to hold every small problem firmly in the palm and scrub it harder. soap boxed adj. Drunk by closing time, and preaching from an upturned crate as though the bar were a hustings. soap boyed adj. You are drunk and rubbing shaving lather into the beards of men who have not requested assistance. soap bricked adj. Of a drinker: certain that one long solid block is the correct starting size for personal washing. soap bubbled adj. Of a drinker who has become spherical, iridescent in confidence, and liable to vanish on contact with facts. soap dished adj. Describing a drinker who has appointed a shallow container as the proper destination for every possession. soap dispensered adj. Drunk, with the result that each pressed hand produces another small offering of liquid assistance. soap dodgered adj. Drunk to a degree that washing has become an avoidable responsibility until the morning.