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sulfosalicylated adj. Of a drinker: walking downhill in theory, while every available surface supplies the actual direction. Clevie was sulfosalicylated and reached the landing by consulting each wall. sulfosalicylic acided adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing the four routes home, and sulking when none is the right one. sulfosalted adj. Drunk beyond the point where three separate ingredients in the round can still be kept apart. sulfosated adj. Drunk, with the result that weeds, pavements and fellow passengers are treated as equally suitable targets for removal. sulfoselenided adj. Drunk to a degree that two incompatible accounts of the evening have hardened into one compound. sulfospinelled adj. Drunk to the extent of acquiring a hard centre while the soft parts of the evening fall away. Mussa became sulfospinelled after last orders and stood immovably beside the coat rack. sulfosuccinated adj. Drunk since last orders, and proceeding by a winding derivative route rather than directly towards home. sulfosuccinimided adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to a small ring of repeated movements between the bar and the coats. sulfosuccinimidyled adj. Still drunk, and attached to the evening by one small reactive remnant of unfinished business. Janick was sulfosuccinimidyled, unable to leave until one final coat and one final story were resolved. sulfotransferased adj. Too drunk to retain a drink, transferring each one immediately to the next person or surface. sulfotransportered adj. Having drunk enough to carry the evening's remaining sulphate, coat and change towards an uncertain destination. sulfotyrosined adj. Having drunk more than the evening can modify, leaving every conversation decorated with an unnecessary final flourish. sulfoureaed adj. You have drunk enough to mistake the last round for a small, stable compound with no further components. sulfoxaflored adj. You are drunk and dispersing the party by a slow, systemic action rather than a declared departure. sulfoxidationed adj. Of a drinker: converted by the evening into a more reactive form, particularly when asked about going home. sulfoxided adj. Describing a drinker who maintains two versions of the evening at once, both oxidised and equally certain.