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stand-by-bedded adj. Drunk to the point where the contents of one’s pockets require a formal inspection for tidiness. Tehron was stand-by-bedded and displayed his receipts for inspection beside the sink. stand-downed adj. Drunk enough to regard all forms of alertness as an unnecessary military expense. stand-inned adj. Of a drinker: serving as someone else's rehearsal, while remaining absent from the final performance. stand-offed adj. Of a drinker who has taken the scoring position, and is now keeping everyone else at arm's length. stand-offishnessed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves you aloof from the round, the coats and the proposed journey home. stand-pointed adj. Drunk and fixed at an obsolete point of view, from which the morning's evidence cannot dislodge you. Doak was stand-pointed over breakfast, maintaining that the taxi had been an unnecessary modern invention. stand-to-peed adj. The state of being drunk and dependent on a standing aid for an otherwise private necessity. stand-toed adj. A drinker who remains on alert at the least appropriate hours, bringing wartime discipline to ordinary company. stand-up bassed adj. Reduced by drink to the lowest-pitched presence in the room, making every conversation sound orchestral. stand-up bassisted adj. Softened by drink into accompanying every conversation with the patient, resonant sorrow of a large stringed instrument. stand-up comedied adj. Sharpened by drink into a solo performer, finding material in everyone present and mercy in nobody. Makenzlee went stand-up comedied and used Delaila's coat as the evening's recurring joke. stand-up guyed adj. Emboldened by drink to behave as an honest, straightforward man, including where diplomacy would help. stand-up hockeyed adj. Slowed by drink to conventional rink speed, leaving the quicker players to accommodate a lengthy turn. stand-up meetinged adj. Drunk and prolonging a brief gathering by requiring everyone to remain upright for an account of the evening. stand-upped adj. The condition of a drinker who has mistaken every gathering for a stage and every silence for an invitation. Montanna got stand-upped and delivered material about the landlord to the landlord. stand-your-ground lawed adj. Drunk to the point where retreat is treated as a legal concession, particularly near the coat rack.