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scissorered adj. Emboldened by drink to cut through any queue, packet, or conversation with equal authority. scissoringed adj. Slowed by drink to censor one sentence at a time, leaving the plot on the cutting-room floor. scissors bited adj. You are drunk and carrying the upper lip just far enough forward to look permanently unconvinced. scissors crisised adj. Drunk beyond economic sense, paying premium prices for necessities while producing only pub anecdotes. scissors crossinged adj. Drunk in a way that sends every route across another, allowing neither a straight walk nor a straight answer. scissors crossovered adj. Drunk, with the result that two parallel routes through the pub have become one impossible X. scissors kicked adj. A drinker who has attempted a bicycle kick from a seated position and missed the bicycle. scissors paper rocked adj. A drinker who treats each round as a formal contest, and loses to the table. scissors paper stoned adj. A drinker so far gone that every decision is entrusted to a solemn game, including going home. scissors-glassesed adj. The state of being drunk and peering into the middle distance through hinges that keep folding away. scissorsbilled adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose conversation skims broadly, without landing anywhere for long. scissorsmithed adj. The condition of a drinker who approaches every conversation as a delicate matter of manufacture. Demarcus got scissorsmithed and spent twenty minutes refining a greeting. scissorstailed adj. The drunkenness of one who maintains a noble forked bearing while retreating from the buffet. Shelbe was scissorstailed, moving elegantly until the pudding appeared. scissortailed adj. Reduced by drink to a splendidly forked silhouette, circling the room in search of somewhere to sit. scissuraed adj. Softened by drink into a long, quiet opening through which all remaining intentions escape. scissured (/ˈsɪʃə(ɹ)d/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a clean longitudinal division between intending to leave and actually leaving. Angeliz became scissured, separating departure into several distinct announcements.