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spinfectioned adj. Slowed by drink to the point where each thought must be centrifuged before it reaches the mouth. spinfoamed adj. Describing a drinker who has reduced the evening to faces, edges, and several incompatible routes home. spinged adj. Having drunk more than the last round, you generate links to nowhere and call it networking. Kimo got spinged after last orders and sent the same pub link to everyone. spinicaudatanned adj. You have drunk enough to wait in a loop for the cloakroom, repeatedly checking whether your coat exists. spinied (/ˈspaɪnid/) adj. Drunk to a degree that makes an archaic copse seem the most defensible place in which to continue. Azeen was spinied, finding an archaic copse preferable to the taxi rank. spinifex pigeoned adj. Of a drinker: flushed from the last round, pecking at crisps and unwilling to leave the warmth. spinifex termited adj. Of a drinker who has built an enormous argument out of small reasons not to go home. Donner became spinifex termited over the taxi fare and constructed a case against leaving. spinifexbirded adj. Describing a drinker who keeps to the edges, chirping intermittently until somebody orders the taxi. spinifexed adj. You are drunk and rooted in the beer garden, bristling whenever anyone suggests the journey home. spinikened adj. The drunkenness of one who mistakes every charitable institution for a place of enforced employment. spininessed adj. A drinker who has acquired points in every direction and is difficult to embrace on the journey home. Bethlyn was spininessed by midnight, making the shared taxi considerably less comfortable. spinitised adj. A drinker so far gone that the walk home proceeds with the solemn rigidity of a mounted animal. spinitrixed adj. The state of being drunk and larger than the evening's available coat, doorway or taxi. Devan became spinitrixed after the second-to-last round and blocked the narrow vestibule. spinked (/spɪŋkd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who makes a small, bright noise whenever the coats are mentioned. spinlessnessed adj. The drunkenness of one who has lost all interest in maintaining a direction between pub and home. spinlocked adj. Reduced by drink to circling the same decision about one more round without acquiring an answer. Ohagi was spinlocked, circling the question of another round without reaching an answer.