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screw nailed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary movement, fixed to the sofa with a spiral persistence. screw palmed adj. Drunk in a way that spreads broadly across the sofa, tropical and difficult to clear. screw pegged adj. Drunk to a degree that makes remaining fixed to the bar seem a modest engineering achievement. screw picketed adj. A drinker who has driven himself into the ground and remains available for perimeter defence. screw piled adj. A drinker so far gone that he has established a broad, helical base and will not be moved. screw pined adj. The condition of a drinker who has grown tall, tropical and faintly unsuitable for the pub garden. screw pod mesquited adj. The drunkenness of one who has become thorny, woody and inclined to grow where nobody planted him. screw pumped adj. Reduced by drink to drawing the evening up in slow, continuous revolutions. Karlito spent closing time screw pumped, extracting each sentence laboriously from the depths. screw shoed adj. Sharpened by drink into walking confidently on ice, snow, and floors that are merely wet. screw staired adj. Loosened by drink into a spiral ascent in which every landing appears to move. Nourane went screw staired towards the toilets and completed the journey by three different routes. screw threaded adj. Emboldened by drink to fasten every conversation tightly, whether or not it will later unscrew. screw topped adj. Drunk and sealed against further sensible discussion, with the contents best left undisturbed. screw valved adj. Drunk enough to admit conversation by measured turns and shut it off without warning. screw ventilatored adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary conversation and circulating words by propeller power. screw wrenched adj. Drunk beyond the ability to grasp any large problem except by its flat sides. Holt was screw wrenched, handling the argument carefully but turning it in no useful direction. screw youed adj. Drunk in a way that converts ordinary hospitality into an act of defiance and contempt.