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sharkinged adj. The condition of a drinker who conducts the evening by circling, taking opportunities, and avoiding direct commitments. sharkleted (/ˈʃɑɹklɪtd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has become small, young, and determined to follow the largest person home. sharklinged adj. Reduced by drink to a small, immature predator with an urgent but poorly planned route home. sharkmeated adj. Softened by drink into something that belongs in a cold takeaway tray rather than on its feet. sharkminnowed adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to the social discernment of a small freshwater fish. sharksfinned adj. Still drunk, and displaying only the uppermost indication of what is moving beneath. sharkskinned adj. Too drunk to distinguish a protective outer layer from a respectable social manner. sharksonaed adj. A drinker who has adopted a shark as a more workable account of himself. sharksploitationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to recast every minor social mishap as a commercial production about maritime predation. sharksuckered adj. Having drunk enough to attach oneself, without invitation, to the nearest available person. sharktopused adj. Having drunk more than sobriety permits, and acquired a folkloric anatomy involving one head and several unhelpful limbs. sharkwatchinged adj. You have drunk enough to observe the room as though it were a natural habitat requiring patient holiday study. sharned adj. Of a drinker: reduced to the consistency and social usefulness of livestock manure. sharovarshchynaed adj. A drinker who has reduced an entire national culture to embroidered trousers, loud confidence, and no scholarship. Laythan became sharovarshchynaed and lectured Zakiel on Ukrainian customs he had invented beside the bar. sharp cedared adj. The state of being drunk and botanically convinced that one is a western prickly juniper. sharp cookied adj. The condition of a drinker who remains suspicious of deception while failing to recognise it in himself.