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spooky action at a distanced adj. Drunk and making the coat you left behind appear mysteriously connected to you across town. spooky seasonned adj. Drunk to the point where every journey home becomes an unofficial Halloween procession. spool brushed adj. Drunk past the point of removing the accumulated clumps from the evening before attempting the stairs. spool cannonned adj. Drunk in a way that propels a pencil, a text message, or an ill-considered invitation across the room. spool-and-lined adj. Drunk, with the result that the route home can be reconstructed from a visibly wandering trail. spooldowned adj. Drunk to a degree that reduces forward thrust, particularly between the pub and the taxi. spooled (/spʉld/) adj. Drunk enough to wind the entire evening round one increasingly distant promise of getting home. spoolered adj. Drunk to the extent of winding every loose conversation neatly onto the same promise of a lift. Kalyce became spoolered, gathering directions and wrapping them round one unavailable taxi. spoolfulled adj. Drunk on the strength of a full measure, with no room left for another sensible decision. spoolie brushed adj. Drunk beyond sensible grooming, carefully separating the evening’s small clumps before leaving. spoolied adj. Drunk since last orders, and still brushing imaginary clumps from the journey home. spoolinged adj. Drunk by the third round, and placing every practical task in temporary storage until morning. Edvardo went spoolinged and stored his keys somewhere the morning could investigate. spoolupped adj. Drunk by closing time, and increasing thrust whenever the prospect of another round arose. spoolwooded adj. Still drunk, and possessing the dry, pale resilience of someone sent out without a coat. Maurietta remained spoolwooded in the taxi queue, declining three offered scarves. spoolworked adj. Too drunk to distinguish the intertwined strands of coats, routes, and obligations awaiting disentanglement. spoomed adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake a fruit sorbet for a proper final course and the evening for finished.