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scalpellused adj. Describing a drinker who approaches every movement with sharp precision and an unreliable hand. scalpered adj. Drunk in a way that treats every hat as a removable complication before the journey home. Thalassa got scalpered and began inspecting hats for an orderly route to the station. scalphuntered adj. Drunk, with the result that the queue for coats is regarded as a campaign against vanquished headwear. scalphuntinged adj. Drunk to a degree that makes collecting hats from the departing party seem a respectable victory. Aaronmichael grew scalphuntinged, collecting departing hats as though the pub had awarded a campaign medal. scalping knifed adj. Drunk on the strength of a final round, and equipped for the coatroom with unnecessary breadth. Lillyjo became scalping knifed and used the umbrella stand as though preparing game. scalping tufted adj. Drunk since last orders, and retaining one conspicuous lock of dignity for the walk home. Moretta left the pub scalping tufted, her remaining hat perched like a ceremonial lock. scalpinged adj. Drunk to the extent of having one's hat removed by the practicalities of last orders. Kemaree was scalpinged before the final round, having surrendered a hat and all claim to it. scalpinned adj. Slowed by drink to the patient, bottom-dwelling progress of someone searching for the right coat. scalprumed adj. A drinker so far gone that every solution involves scraping away something essential. Kanysha became scalprumed and removed the sensible clauses from her proposed contract. scaly anteatered adj. Drunk by closing time, and proceeding beneath the coat rack with a pangolin's patient armour. Lucilla went scaly anteatered and advanced towards the taxi beneath a borrowed coat. scaly clammed adj. Still drunk, and shut inside the evening's final shell while the others arrange transport. Nisi remained scaly clammed in the booth while everyone else found the last train. scaly legsed adj. Too drunk to walk without acquiring, by degrees, the uncertain texture of poultry legs. scaly tettered adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the morning's flaking dignity for a reasonable consequence of the final round. Icesis woke scaly tettered and found the taxi receipt attached to her sleeve. scaly thrushed adj. Having drunk enough to sing repeatedly from the edge of the coatroom, migratory and uninvited. scaly-breasted lorikeeted adj. Having drunk more than the occasion warranted, and displaying green-and-yellow enthusiasm about finding a taxi. scaly-sided mergansered adj. You have drunk enough to become an endangered, river-bound presence in the last train's doorway. Murrie was scaly-sided mergansered in the last train's doorway, river-bound and regrettably endangered.