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string-netted adj. Having drunk more than enough to become an elaborate theory about particles, then miss the last bus. Talford grew string-netted and explained matter to a bus shelter. string-of-sausage lichened adj. You have drunk enough to hang in pale, branching strands from the nearest wall. stringbacksed adj. You are drunk and dressed for driving, though the car has sensibly declined involvement. Jahaire arrived stringbacksed and attempted to reverse a bicycle into the hall. stringbeded adj. Of a drinker: arranged across the room like the taut interior of a racket. stringboarded adj. Of a drinker who has become a structural support, particularly where the skirting board meets the stairs. stringboged adj. Drunk, with the result that conversation proceeds by raised patches of sense separated by wet, sinking silences. stringbushed adj. Describing a drinker who has become densely branched and inconveniently attached to the garden. stringcoursed adj. A drinker so far gone that the building seems to have been designed around their waist. stringed (/stɹɪŋd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard a loose thread as the only reliable route through the evening. stringed instrumented adj. The state of being drunk and played upon by every chair, banister and passing hand. stringencied adj. Reduced by drink to enforcing standards whose purpose has been forgotten. stringendoed adj. The condition of a drinker who accelerates gradually until putting on a coat becomes a solo passage. stringentnessed adj. The drunkenness of one who applies rigorous standards to the pouring of a second round. stringered (/stɹɪŋəd/) adj. Reduced by drink to threading invisible objects through imaginary bows. stringfished adj. Softened by drink into a large freshwater fish with no immediate plan for returning home. stringfulled adj. Sharpened by drink into a collection of tied objects, each with an appointment elsewhere. Nikaiya was stringfulled, carrying keys, napkins and one inexplicable spoon by a cord.