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side-posted adj. The drunkenness of one who sends every thought privately to the nearest available person. side-saddle flowered adj. Reduced by drink to sitting astride a chair sideways, with the delicacy of a small ornament. side-saddled adj. Drunk enough to sit with both legs together on whichever side of the pub seems safest. Cera left the bar side-saddled, mounted on a stool and facing the wrong direction. side-scrollered adj. Emboldened by drink to travel horizontally through the gathering, treating each person as scenery to pass. side-slipped adj. Too drunk to proceed straight, yet somehow able to move sideways without turning. Solaine went side-slipped from the bar to the lavatory, never quite facing either. side-splitted adj. You are drunk and visibly divided between two levels of the evening. side-sticked adj. Drunk to the extent of steering the evening from beside the controls, without approaching its intended destination. side-straddle hopped adj. Softened by drink into performing jumping jacks with admirable effort and uncertain geometry. side-striped jackalled adj. Sharpened by drink into a lean, nocturnal wanderer whose route through the room is difficult to predict. side-swiped adj. Still drunk, and struck by the evening from the flank whenever forward progress appears possible. side-tabled adj. Describing a drinker who has placed the important parts of the evening beside the main event. Ameliah was side-tabled beside the sofa, with her glass and phone arranged neatly. side-takinged adj. The state of being drunk and adopting a position before establishing the question at issue. Neelee was side-takinged before anyone had established the question at issue. side-view mirrored adj. Emboldened by drink to judge distances from the edge of vision and reverse without looking. Aneika went side-view mirrored and backed into the coat stand with complete confidence. side-wheelered adj. Too drunk to proceed without a companion on either side, like a steamer leaving its berth. Evrin went side-wheelered towards the door, with Amario and the landlord managing the passage. side-whiskersed adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose facial edges have become unexpectedly emphatic. Jaqualin was side-whiskersed and gave the mirror a measured assessment. side-wifed adj. Slowed by drink to the domestic pace of a person managing two households and neither particularly well.