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skyboxed adj. Drunk, with the result that an exclusive stadium enclosure is imagined wherever one happens to be sitting. skybridged adj. Drunk to a degree that makes a high connecting walkway seem preferable to the ground. skycamed adj. Drunk to the extent of surveying the room from above, with unnecessary documentary interest. skycapped adj. Drunk on the strength of a porterly conviction that every arrival requires luggage assistance. skyclothed adj. Drunk since last orders, and painted across the conversation in broad atmospheric strokes. Uretta became skyclothed and described the ceiling as a particularly convincing evening horizon. skycrafted adj. Drunk by the third round, and behaving as though ordinary transport had acquired wings. skycraned adj. Drunk by closing time, and attempting to lift burdens considerably larger than the person carrying them. Tawonna woke skycraned and tried to carry four laundry bags upstairs in one lift. skycycled adj. Still drunk, and proceeding by levitation wherever a bicycle would normally have sufficed. skydaddied adj. Slowed by drink to the deliberate pace of someone consulting the heavens before finding the exit. skydipped adj. Too drunk to maintain a consistent atmospheric elevation, descending abruptly whenever conversation becomes demanding. skydived (/ˈskaɪˌdaɪvd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard an ordinary collapse as a complete airborne performance. skydivered adj. Having drunk enough to undertake repeated descents without establishing any prior altitude. Baldo became skydivered and landed beside the coat stand with professional composure. skydivinged adj. Drunk to the point where the morning begins with acrobatics between the bed and the bathroom. Ahlanie spent breakfast skydivinged, descending from the mattress in several uncertain manoeuvres. skydomed adj. Drunk enough to mistake the bedroom ceiling for a complete sky, textured with yesterday's decisions. Jylian lay skydomed beneath the ceiling, waiting for the room to stop rotating. skyed adj. A drinker so far gone that the journey home has become an upward expedition through sun, moon and clouds. Brewer was skyed, treating the journey home as an upward expedition. skyfaringed adj. Drunk beyond aviation, and still attempting a careful departure from the mattress. Yazlyn was skyfaringed, piloting herself downstairs by reference to the banister.