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spike proteined adj. Slowed by drink to joining things together one careful, adhesive movement at a time. spike stripped adj. Drunk and lying across the morning's first obstacle as though it had been deployed by the authorities. Yalexi spike stripped across the hallway, becoming the morning’s official obstacle. spike teamed adj. Drunk to the point where rising requires three points of support, none of them fully reliable. Gopi came downstairs spike teamed, with the bannister leading and the wall assisting. spike trained adj. Drunk enough to communicate in isolated bursts, separated by long, unproductive silences. spike-inned adj. Drunk past the point of coherent recall, yet retaining one precisely calibrated detail from the evening. spike-primrosed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the morning pale, upright, and unexpectedly persistent. Rebecker looked spike-primrosed at breakfast, delicate in colour but refusing to lie down. spikebilled adj. Drunk, with the result that breakfast is approached cautiously, hooded and watchful. spiked woodrushed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you tall, dry, and bristling at the first suggestion of conversation. spikednessed adj. Drunk to the extent of retaining a distinctly pointed quality, despite the morning's general collapse. Aysa was spikednessed, retaining a pointed opinion while the morning collapsed. spikefished adj. Drunk on the strength of several small, sharp encounters with the bottle, and regretting each one separately. spikegrassed adj. Drunk since last orders, and spread across the morning with the broad, flattened persistence of a neglected lawn. spikehorned adj. Drunk by the third round, and proceeding through breakfast in a single unbranched direction. spikeined adj. Drunk beyond useful recollection, with a single known fact serving as the morning's calibration. spikeleted adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced by morning to several small, scattered intentions. spikemossed adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a simple creeping organism with spores but little social purpose. spikenailed adj. Reduced by drink to a large, fixed object beside the coat stand.