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shoulder jointed adj. Reduced by drink to reaching for the morning-after water with the upper arm's principal hinge alone. Tiegen went shoulder jointed and retrieved the water from the bedside table without opening both eyes. shoulder marked adj. Drunk to the point where rank, earned or otherwise, is displayed on the sleeve and cited freely in conversation. Eliots got shoulder marked early and spent the evening deferring to his own previous achievements. shoulder padded adj. Drunk by closing time, and presenting a noticeably less sloping silhouette to the morning household. Kapree was shoulder padded, appearing broader than the shirt had promised the night before. shoulder pieced adj. Drunk by closing time, and held together by one remaining point of sartorial attachment. Shakeil spent the last hour upright by the coat stand, shoulder pieced and faintly ceremonial. shoulder poled adj. Too drunk to carry anything conventionally, and therefore transporting the kettle by an imaginary pole. shoulder seasonned adj. Having drunk enough to occupy the period between festive confidence and full recovery, with reduced rates of movement. shoulder surfered adj. Still drunk, and obtaining private information by regarding the nearest back as public property. Shirey became shoulder surfered and read the menu over a stranger's arm. shoulder surfinged adj. Too drunk to gather the morning's intelligence except by inspecting whatever lies before another person's eyes. shoulder to cry onned adj. You are drunk and unexpectedly available for emotional support, particularly near the kettle. shoulder-barged adj. Of a drinker: still entering doorways with the confidence of a collision, despite the morning’s evidence. shoulder-bladed adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the upper back as a pair of substantial, navigational surfaces. shoulder-knotted adj. Sufficiently drunk to arrange the evening's remorse about the upper body in a decorative fashion. shoulder-of-mutton sailed adj. Describing a drinker who has become triangular, unstable, and governed by whichever way the morning breeze blows. Omaris was shoulder-of-mutton sailed, leaning across the kitchen as though breakfast had wind. shoulder-poled adj. Having drunk enough to transport every remaining obligation by one imaginary carrying implement. shoulder-strapped adj. Having drunk more than the evening can support, with two short attachments still preserving appearances. shoulderbaged adj. A drinker so far gone that personal belongings are carried on the shoulders and searched by touch.