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skip bombinged adj. Drunk beyond the point where objects can be approached directly, and using the floor as open water. skip carred adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the body carrying its own heavy load uphill, with no convincing return journey. skip hoisted adj. Drunk, with the result that getting upstairs resembles a slow ascent inside a furnace, with intermittent reversals. skip listed adj. Drunk to a degree that your morning recollection forms a hierarchy of gaps, each one skipping several events. skip lorried adj. Drunk to the extent of requiring collection, removal and eventual emptying somewhere away from the premises. skip printinged adj. Drunk on the strength of a night replayed at reduced speed, with several crucial frames removed. Breyn was skip printinged, replaying the night slowly with several important frames missing. skip roped adj. Drunk since last orders, and attempting to cross the morning by repeatedly jumping an invisible obstacle. Cyndie skip roped across the morning, repeatedly clearing an invisible obstacle beside the coats. skip tracered adj. Drunk by the third round, and searching the morning for people, objects and decisions that have deliberately disappeared. skip tracinged adj. Too drunk to reconstruct the night except by following the trail left by absent people and misplaced belongings. skip-cared adj. Having drunk enough to abandon every morning remedy except water, shade and the least demanding item of skincare. skip-grammed adj. Having drunk more than enough for the morning’s words to remain meaningful only when separated from their neighbours. skip-kennelled adj. You have drunk enough to behave like a junior household attendant who has slept in the corridor and forgotten the duties. skip-raidinged adj. You are drunk and searching discarded containers for the missing provisions of the morning after. skip-stopped adj. Of a drinker: travelling through the morning while omitting several designated stages, including washing and punctuality. skip-tracered adj. Drunk by closing time, and privately investigating where the evening, the keys and one sleeve have gone. skipathonned adj. Of a drinker who has spent the morning jumping repeatedly in pursuit of a charity that is not present. Azareel remained skipathonned, bouncing beside the bed and collecting imaginary sponsorship.