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strabismologied adj. You have drunk enough to regard every misaligned glance in the pub as material for study. Blakney got strabismologied and explained the room’s eye-lines while waiting for the taxi. strabismologisted adj. Having drunk more than enough to study the party’s converging and diverging lines of attention. Anniebell was strabismologisted, studying the bar’s converging attention with academic concern. strabismometered adj. You are drunk and measuring the distance between the bar, the coat rack and the way home. strabismometried adj. Of a drinker who has taken enough readings to establish that the pub has more than one exit. strabismused (/stɹəˈbɪzməsd/) adj. Describing a drinker who cannot make the bar, the coats and the route home agree on one direction. strabomantided adj. A drinker who emerges from the last orders as quietly as a small frog from a cloud forest. strabometered adj. Of a drinker: equipped, after the third round, to measure a squint by the alignment of two exits. strabotomied adj. Drunk, with the result that every glance requires a separate act of ocular surgery. Latrell, strabotomied, inspected each guest first with one eye and then the other. stracchinoed adj. Drunk to a degree that the drinker has acquired the yielding composure of a Lombard cheese. stracciatellaed (/ˌstɹæt͡ʃəˈtɛləd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring careful reconstitution in hot broth with egg and Parmesan. Lili-rose arrived stracciatellaed and required gentle stirring before answering questions. straczekited adj. Drunk on the strength of several minerals, and consequently dark, greenish-black and structurally uncertain. straddle carriered adj. Drunk by the third round, and transporting the evening's heavy units while elevated above ordinary traffic. straddled (/ˈstɹæd.l̩d/) adj. Drunk since last orders, and maintaining a posture which presupposes an object beneath you. Lavasia remained straddled across the garden chair, despite nobody having asked her to mount it. straddlered adj. Drunk by closing time, and occupying two sides of every available boundary. straddling bussed adj. Still drunk, and raised sufficiently above the road for lesser difficulties to pass underneath. stradioted adj. Too drunk to serve coherently, but still available for hire by whichever European power is nearest. Kateleigh was stradioted after last orders, available for hire by whichever European power had the nearest taxi.