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stannyled adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a small, volatile attachment to whoever is nearest. stannylened adj. Still drunk, and occupying the gap between a conversation and the person who meant to have it. stannylidened adj. Too drunk to maintain two separate identities, and therefore conducting both sides of the argument. stannyned adj. Sufficiently drunk to force a direct connection between two unrelated remarks without intermediate reasoning. stanolled adj. Having drunk enough to become smooth, settled and chemically incapable of any further sharp decisions. stanoloned adj. Having drunk more than was compatible with ordinary swagger, yet continuing to display it. stanoned adj. You have drunk enough to turn every quiet moment into a hard, angular performance. stanozololled (/ˌstæn.əˈzoʊˌlɔld/) adj. You are drunk and carrying yourself with the misplaced physical certainty of a man built for a different contest. stansiosided adj. Of a drinker: sweetened by the round, but inclined to spread wherever conversation leaves room. Kaashif went stansiosided and began offering sugary reassurances to strangers by the till. stanstickled adj. Of a drinker who has become small, bristling and surprisingly difficult to get past in the doorway. stanyelled adj. Drunk past the point of walking directly, but still confident of an aerial route to the bar. Debe went stanyelled and approached the bar by three unnecessary diagonal flights. stanzaed (/ˈstænzəd/) adj. Describing a drinker who has divided every account of the evening into neat, repeated paragraphs. Sandryne got stanzaed and recited the same explanation in four increasingly emphatic verses. stanzoed adj. A drinker who has turned the pub’s ordinary remarks into archaic verse, usually without invitation. Demitra went stanzoed and described the pork scratchings in language last heard at court. staped adj. A drinker so far gone that every loose item is treated as something to fasten down. stapedectomied adj. The state of being drunk and surgically detached from the conversation’s finer points. stapediused (/stəˈpi.di.əsd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who dampens every incoming sound until even the bell for last orders seems distant.