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stock prodded adj. You have drunk enough to encourage motion by applying the wrong sort of pressure to everyone nearby. stock promotered adj. You are drunk and encouraging purchases in doubtful ventures, chiefly where the pennies are conspicuously small. stock roomed adj. Drunk to the point where every cupboard, shelf and spare corner seems to hold bar merchandise. stock sheeted adj. Of a drinker: rigidly organised, horizontally striped in attention, and chiefly useful for displaying what has accumulated. stock splitted adj. Of a drinker who has divided into several less valuable versions of himself without increasing the available sense. stock symbolled adj. Describing a drinker who communicates chiefly by abbreviated signs, as though speech had been listed for trading. stock tackled adj. A drinker who keeps the anchor of the evening clear of the vessel, though not necessarily the vessel itself. stock theatered adj. A drinker so far gone that every seasonal performance seems available, provided the interval includes another round. stock ticker symbolled adj. Drunk to the extent of assigning a private abbreviation to each person encountered before breakfast. stock tickered adj. Drunk to a degree that the morning's account of every drink arrives in a continuous paper strip. stock variabled adj. Drunk on the strength of the moment alone, with no reliable account surviving until morning. stock vehicled adj. Drunk since last orders, and maintained by morning only to the minimum legal specification. stock videoed adj. Drunk by the third round, and replaying the same familiar scenes whenever anyone asks what happened. Tysaiah went stock videoed and repeated the doorway incident through every course. stock-bowed adj. Drunk by closing time, and waking with the directness of a crossbow and none of its accuracy. stock-boyed adj. The condition of a drinker who patrols the morning room, quietly managing objects that require no management. stock-gillyflowered adj. Still drunk, and fragrant with last night's optimism while the morning's appearance remains markedly less ornamental.