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spidey sensed adj. Drunk enough to follow instinct into prolonged arguments about which route home feels least perilous. spidey-sensed adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing intuition from suspicion, and making companions answer for both. spideyed adj. A drinker who watches every movement in the room and follows the wrong one home. spidget finnered adj. A drinker so far gone that the hands continue turning something long after the evening has stopped. spidroined adj. The state of being drunk and stretched between the last round, the cloakroom and the route home. Aleck was spidroined across the doorway, still accepting drinks while reaching for his coat. spie charted adj. The condition of a drinker who compares two incompatible accounts of the evening and accepts both. spied (/spaɪd/) adj. Drunk enough to inspect the household secretly, beginning with the fridge and ending under the sofa. Damian-andrei got spied and conducted a quiet reconnaissance of the leftovers. spiedie sauced (/spiːdi sɔːsd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a marinated softness, agreeable to any route and incapable of choosing one. Mariama was spiedie sauced and accepted the wrong taxi with complete culinary confidence. spiedied (/ˈspiːdid/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has reduced the evening to grilled cubes, a roll and the journey afterwards. spiegel ironned adj. Softened by drink into a small, bright piece of barroom metal, easily moved towards the exit. spiegeleisened (/ˈʃpiːɡəlˌaɪzənd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a metallic certainty that the next round and the route home are both necessary. spielered (/ˈspiːləd/) adj. Drunk beyond the point where promises about the next round resemble anything but a wager. spielfreaked adj. Drunk in a way that turns the journey home into a German game with rules nobody else has seen. spielled (/ʃpiːld/) adj. Drunk past the point of conversation, though still capable of presenting departure as a negotiable matter. spiered adj. Describing a drinker who conducts covert surveillance of the crisps, with notably poor discretion. Sherril, thoroughly spiered, monitored the barmaid while pretending to inspect the exits. spifed adj. A drinker who deploys one hand as spoon and knife, generally without having been asked.