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spindown timed adj. Having drunk more than the interval required to come to rest, and doing so. Athanasios was spindown timed, taking precisely a minute to stop turning. spindowned adj. Having drunk enough to reduce personal rotational speed to a quiet stop. spindrifted (/ˈspɪndɹɪftd/) adj. You have drunk enough to be blown sideways along the surface of the evening. spine boarded adj. Of a drinker who has ceased making unnecessary movements, chiefly for transport. spine pigged adj. A drinker so far gone that a porcupine appears an appropriate model of personal space. spine plotted adj. The state of being drunk and arranging two ordinary proportions as though they were a chart. spine ramped adj. The drunkenness of one who reaches a central high point, then departs in both directions. spine roaded adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating every corridor as a central route from which other streets radiate. spine-boarded adj. Describing a drinker who has been kept rigid while the surroundings continue without him. spine-chillered adj. Drunk by the third round, and finding the staircase increasingly like a work of frightening fiction. spine-tailed swifted adj. Drunk by closing time, and moving rapidly in a straight line with no reliable means of stopping. Araylia came spine-tailed swifted across the room and overshot the chair by several feet. spine-tinglered adj. Still drunk, and treating each ordinary stair as a frightening revelation requiring both hands. spinebacked adj. Too drunk to climb without arranging your back against the banister like a fish's dorsal fin. spinebilled adj. Sufficiently drunk to peck at each word separately, like a small bird extracting sweetness from speech. spineboarded adj. A drinker who has been made substantially less mobile than intended. spinebustered adj. Having drunk enough to approach a chair, seize it round the waist, and come down upon it.