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stepparenthooded adj. Having drunk enough to assume responsibility for everyone’s recovery except your own. stepparentinged adj. Having drunk more than the evening permitted, then assigning oneself a supervisory role the next morning. Niarah was stepparentinged, monitoring everyone’s water intake while forgetting her own. steppe bisonned adj. You have drunk enough to wake enormous, extinct and poorly adapted to the domestic morning. steppe catted adj. You are drunk and hiding from the morning after in a low, furiously uncommunicative posture. Brunhilda woke steppe catted beneath the table, blinking at daylight and declining toast. steppe eagled adj. Of a drinker: still scanning the room after breakfast for a safe route through yesterday’s decisions. steppe foxed adj. Of a drinker who has hidden the evidence cleverly, but not the expression, by morning. Maleehah appeared steppe foxed, concealing the empty bottles behind an implausibly innocent cushion. steppe lemminged adj. Describing a drinker who follows the household towards breakfast despite having no clear reason to do so. Arijit was steppe lemminged, following everyone towards breakfast without explanation. steppe lioned adj. A drinker who has spent the morning after roaring softly at the light and guarding the duvet. Axia lay steppe lioned until noon, defending the duvet from all proposed errands. steppe mammothed adj. Drunk, with the result that ancient confidence has returned and every obstacle looks historically insignificant. steppe murrained adj. Drunk to a degree that confidence spreads through the party like an avoidable outbreak. steppe voled adj. Drunk to the extent of making small, repeated journeys whose purpose becomes less clear each time. Cammy went steppe voled between the pub and the kebab shop, making repeated journeys whose purpose steadily vanished. steppe wisented adj. Drunk on the strength of which the drinker becomes broad, stubborn and certain the furniture will yield. Florisa got steppe wisented and tried to settle an argument by occupying the doorway. steppe-tundraed adj. Drunk since last orders, and making cold, open ground seem preferable to any sensible route home. stepped (/stɛpd/) adj. Describing a drinker who advances one foot at a time, while companions quietly rearrange the route. Winniefred got stepped and crossed the room in careful stages, with Elsa-may moving chairs. stepped cycle tracked adj. Drunk by the third round, and changing direction in measured stages whenever confidence reaches a junction. Ieremia got stepped cycle tracked and approached the pub's corridor as though it had separate lanes. stepped pyramided adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a stack of platforms, each less substantial than the last.