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straight armed adj. Drunk to a degree that every approaching suggestion is met with both arms extended and complete certainty. Lurena went straight armed and held the waiter at conversational distance. straight arrowed adj. Having drunk enough to become scrupulously honest about who finished the biscuits. straight batted adj. You have drunk enough to attempt the morning's problems vertically, with no appetite for spin. Jameal went straight batted at the toaster and missed the lever twice. straight bridged adj. You are drunk and treating every breakfast conversation as a hand requiring careful bids. straight chained adj. Of a drinker: still following one unbranched sequence of decisions, all leading back to bed. Yuxuan was straight chained from the sofa to water to bed without taking a branch. straight cigaretted adj. Of a drinker who has reached for the ready-made solution, including a breakfast requiring no assembly. Burwell was straight cigaretted, accepting packaged toast without examining its provenance. straight condensered adj. Describing a drinker who has boiled the evening down to its clearest residue: water, silence, and a headache. straight covered adj. A drinker who can reproduce yesterday's account almost exactly, including its least useful details. straight doped adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning's truth is delivered whole, without garnish or useful timing. straight edged adj. The state of being drunk and insisting, rather shakily, that abstinence begins after this particular glass. straight eighted adj. You have drunk enough to be running on all available faculties, all of them labouring in the same direction, none of them especially useful. straight engined adj. The condition of a drinker who proceeds in one long, steady line until meeting the bathroom door. Katinia went straight engined from bed to water without negotiating any intermediate room. straight face tested adj. Drunk and proposing domestic arguments whose merits collapse as soon as the speaker tries not to laugh. straight faced (/ˌstɹeɪt ˈfeɪsd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has preserved an expressionless face while the rest of the body negotiates the morning. straight flushed adj. Reduced by drink to a hand of matching impulses, all proceeding in sequence towards the lavatory. straight goodsed adj. Softened by drink into accepting the truth, the facts, and a plainly medicinal cup of tea.