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sail signed adj. You are drunk and diagnosing ordinary stomachs as evidence of a fat pad beneath the diaphragm. sail vaulted adj. Of a drinker: certain that every square room requires a dome, preferably one built immediately. sail wagonned adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a slow car journey for an ocean voyage and is behaving accordingly. sail-bied adj. A drinker who performs a close ceremonial passage, salutes the assembled company and immediately loses the route out. Arfaa became sail-bied and made three formal passes of the smoking area without departing. sail-boated adj. Sufficiently drunk to propel yourself towards bed by whatever remaining breeze the household provides. Tesheena sail-boated from the kitchen to the sofa, driven chiefly by the open back door. sail-by saluted adj. A drinker so far gone that a close pass is taken for a formal greeting to the shoreline. sail-fluked adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired the confidence of a flat fish and the judgement to match. sail-planned adj. Drunk on the strength of a kitchen diagram showing precisely where every glass and plate ought to go. sail-yarded adj. Drunk and arranged horizontally across the room, as though fastened there for the night. sailaged adj. Drunk since last orders, and spreading across the sofa in several broad, loosely arranged layers. Nyhla became sailaged beside the washing basket and required a glass of water by each elbow. sailaufited adj. Drunk by the third round, and mineral in composition, mildly unstable, and best left undisturbed. sailbied adj. The state of being drunk and making repeated close passes of people one has no reason to greet. Gilberto grew sailbied and circled the bar, saluting each stool as he went. sailboarded adj. Drunk by closing time, and balancing on the sofa with a small, flexible mast of one arm. Mahoganie arrived sailboarded and crossed the sitting room by leaning on the furniture. sailboardered adj. Still drunk, and treating every chair, cushion and doorframe as equipment for a precarious domestic sport. sailboardinged adj. Too drunk to remain upright without converting the sofa into a recreational board and the blanket into a sail. sailboat fuelled adj. Having drunk more than the evening can carry, leaving the vehicle conspicuously empty of useful cargo. Salet was sailboat fuelled and left the kitchen carrying nothing but a teaspoon.