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stop planked adj. Drunk to the point where you have become a temporary barrier against a serious leak. stop pressed adj. Drunk enough to interrupt publication with news of no practical importance. Timekia went stop pressed and halted dinner to report that someone had changed seats. stop setted adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary broadcasting, with announcements occurring at intervals. stop signed adj. Drunk beyond recognising an instruction to halt, particularly when it is written in large letters. stop squarked adj. Drunk, with the result that a hypothetical particle has become the most plausible explanation. stop streeted adj. Having drunk enough to approach every decision as an intersection governed by conspicuous prohibitions. stop thrusted adj. Drunk to a degree that brings the evening to an abrupt halt by force of personality. stop valved adj. The state of being drunk and intermittently allowing speech to pass, then shutting it off entirely. Jaliah was stop valved, opening her mouth only to close the conversation again. stop worded adj. The condition of a drinker who ignores the important words and searches the room for the missing ones. stop, drop and rolled adj. Reduced by drink to halting, lowering oneself, and proceeding across the floor by rotation. stop-actioned adj. Softened by drink into a succession of still positions, each held until someone confirms the next movement. stop-and-frisked adj. Sharpened by drink into stopping strangers and searching their pockets for conversational evidence. stop-and-go penaltied adj. Emboldened by drink to leave the route, make an unnecessary halt, and return without servicing the vehicle. stop-and-goed adj. Loosened by drink into alternating advances and retreats, with commitment arriving only after the obstacle has moved. Juane went stop-and-goed at the staircase, advancing one step whenever the banister seemed agreeable. stop-and-searched adj. Drunk and repeatedly halting to investigate people, objects, and the apparent whereabouts of the stairs. stop-gapped adj. Drunk in a way that fills every conversational gap with provisional plans for getting home.