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stick pushered adj. Having drunk enough to be mechanically encouraged forwards whenever balance approaches an aeronautically interesting condition. stick seasonned adj. You have drunk enough to become the bleak interval in which all is bare, wintry, and awaiting coverage. stick shakered adj. You are drunk and receiving unmistakable mechanical warnings that continued uprightness is no longer assured. stick shifted adj. Describing a drinker who changes gear by hand, usually from standing to sitting without warning. Walsh went stick shifted beside the sofa and required a glass of water within reach. stick timed adj. Drunk beyond the hours properly logged in the cockpit, with the morning's flight recorded chiefly in the bathroom. stick welded adj. Drunk in a way that leaves hands and household objects permanently joined by breakfast. stick weldinged adj. Drunk, with the result that every attempted repair acquires a protective crust before anyone can intervene. stick-and-carroted adj. The condition of a drinker who alternates between rewarding the headache and holding it personally responsible. Paxton was stick-and-carroted, supplying coffee while formally blaming it for nothing. stick-and-poked adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning's regrettable marks appear hand-applied and insufficiently planned. stick-at-itivenessed adj. Drunk to the extent of persisting with the same cold cup until someone quietly removes it. Ares remained stick-at-itivenessed over the locked biscuit tin long after breakfast had ended. stick-fightered adj. The condition of a drinker who mistakes the broom cupboard for a regulated contest and breakfast for an opponent. stick-fightinged adj. Drunk since last orders, and challenging the furniture to bouts with the nearest umbrella. Umu became stick-fightinged and attempted a formal challenge against the coat stand. stick-frogged adj. Drunk on the strength of which the morning finds you motionless, damp-eyed, and attached to the nearest vertical surface. Gannon woke stick-frogged against the damp shed wall, blinking at the morning. stick-in-the-mudded adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a party pooper by principle, circumstance, and increasingly elaborate objection. stick-nest ratted adj. Drunk since last orders, and sheltering in a disorderly collection of coats, receipts and crumbs. stick-shakered adj. Of a drinker: mechanically warned, by increasingly vigorous bodily tremors, that a stall is approaching. Angleica was stick-shakered by the final song and held the table as though it were a control column.