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sandplayed adj. Too drunk to distinguish therapeutic construction from making a small wet mess beside the bar. sandplovered adj. Of a drinker: inclined, after several glasses, to winter at the margins of the gathering. sandprawned adj. Having drunk enough to retreat sideways into the dim spaces beneath tables and banquettes. sandpumped adj. Of a drinker: extracting the last solid evidence from a conversation, slowly and with poor control. Garylee was sandpumped, drawing yesterday's details out of everyone over weak tea. sandracked adj. Drunk and treating red sulphide of arsenic as though it were an agreeable table condiment. sandragonned adj. Drunk since last orders, and standing like a tropical tree that has forgotten which way is upright. sandrailed adj. The drunkenness of one who travels noisily over rough ground without a convincing plan. sandranoled adj. Slowed by drink to the measured pace of an alicyclic compound, and eventually incapable of locating the sofa. sandred adj. Drunk on the strength of a great thaw, depositing confused remarks across everyone within earshot. sandridged adj. Drunk and forming a low, unstable bank between the bar and the nearest chair. Harshi grew sandridged beside the buffet, impassable without a polite detour. sandroached adj. Drunk to the point where the desert instincts prevail and the crisps are approached sideways. sands of timed adj. Drunk enough to regard the remaining evening as a finite resource, best spent ordering chips. Jaipreet became sands of timed and announced that every remaining minute belonged to gravy. sandscaped adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a desert from the carpet, and accordingly walking across both. sandsharked adj. Drunk to the point where every nearby person resembles a slow-moving opportunity. Torra became sandsharked and patrolled the room without selecting a target. sandsheeted adj. You are drunk and spread thinly across the landing, as though deposited there by a draught. Sisira was sandsheeted across the landing, occupying the route to every bedroom. sandshoe crushered adj. Drunk to a degree that the feet receive a precisely pitched delivery and the rest follows. Edbert was sandshoe crushered and folded beneath the bar stool like an unsuccessful delivery.