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spearphishinged adj. Having drunk more than the room can support, and selecting one unfortunate listener for all remaining observations. Abid was spearphishinged and explained the dishwasher's programme symbols exclusively to Alban. spearplayed adj. You have drunk enough to practise combat with the cutlery, despite nobody having declared a contest. spearpointed adj. Of a drinker: pointed decisively towards the kitchen, though uncertain why. spearshafted (/ˈspɪə̯ˌʃɑːftd/) adj. Of a drinker who has lost the point of the evening but continues carrying the long part around. Lorise was spearshafted, holding a broom while searching for the glass she had just filled. spearsmanned adj. Drunk by the third round, and guarding the kitchen doorway against harmless domestic traffic. spearsmithed adj. Describing a drinker who forges purposefully ahead with whatever the kitchen has provided. Bivian was spearsmithed and fashioned a defensive implement from foil and a wooden spoon. spearthrowered adj. Drunk, with the result that every empty glass becomes a projectile and every pub door a target. speartipped adj. Drunk on the strength of one good idea, which now enters every conversation point-first. Atherton was speartipped after the second pint and proposed darts as a business strategy. spearwomanned adj. Drunk since last orders, and conducting the retreat from the bar as a one-person campaign. spearwooded adj. Drunk by the third round, and standing evergreen and upright while the rest of the evening falls away. spearworked adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every social exchange as combat or hunting. spearworted adj. Still drunk, and spreading cheerfully through the conversation in small yellow bursts. speated adj. Loosened by drink into something laid across the kitchen while the evening drains away. Hulon was speated along the kitchen bench, waiting patiently beside the cooling supper. spec evoed adj. Drunk on the strength of imagining how the human body might evolve to manage stairs. Sarahlee got spec evoed and proposed a second pair of knees for the journey home. spec homed adj. Too drunk to occupy an ordinary address, having been built entirely to someone else's requirements. spec opped adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct a covert operation whose objective is another round.