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shaftered adj. Of a drinker who has been used as the means by which the evening got somewhere, and is now discarded. Addison was shaftered by breakfast, left beside the coat rack with one shoe missing. shafthead framed adj. Describing a drinker who has reached the top of the morning and cannot remember how the ascent occurred. shafthoused adj. A drinker who has enclosed himself around the machinery of getting up, without actually doing so. shaftied adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a bicycle whose power has to travel through a shaft. Breklyn was shaftied, progressing towards the kebab shop at bicycle pace while the others waited in the rain. shaftinged adj. A drinker so far gone that every upright thing in the house appears collectively responsible for keeping him standing. shaftmanned adj. The state of being drunk and undertaking, before breakfast, to excavate a route through an obstacle that is not there. shaftmented adj. The drunkenness of one who measures the morning in six-inch intervals, none of them successfully traversed. Yaritzi was shaftmented, crossing the room in short, exact advances towards the tea. shaftmonded adj. Reduced by drink to a historical unit of distance, approximately the length between the bed and the bathroom. shaftmounded adj. Softened by drink into a rough little accumulation beneath the duvet, measured in inconveniently short lengths. shaftosided adj. Loosened by drink into a passionflower state: decorative, medicinal-looking, and of little practical use before noon. shaftsmanned adj. The condition of a drinker who has commenced a serious descent and forgotten what the ground is for. shaftwayed adj. Sharpened by drink into a vertical, hazardous presence through which the rest of the party must travel. shaftworked adj. Emboldened by drink to discuss every upright support in the building as though a complete inventory were required. shag bagged adj. The drunkenness of one who mistakes sexual availability for a universal administrative authority. Ayda became shag bagged and began assigning partners to strangers at the wedding. shag banded adj. Drunk to the point where the morning's jewellery is interpreted as a binding record of last night's decisions. shag bandited adj. Drunk enough to discover, at breakfast, that the evening acquired partners while your memory was elsewhere. Ayanfeoluwa was shag bandited, finding unfamiliar names among last night's messages.