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try cocked adj. Of a drinker who has confidently opened the valve for one small sample and somehow authorised the whole barrel. try housed adj. Describing a drinker who has confidently opened an obsolete rendering works in the middle of the evening. Chevone got try housed and began assigning the kitchen cupboards to different oil-making departments.
try lined adj. A drinker who confidently treats the far edge of the room as a scoring line and heads for it. Evell got try lined and charged towards the skirting board with the ball nobody had given him. try potted adj. The state of being drunk and confidently rendering the evening into a large, overheated marine kitchen. try squared adj. Reduced by drink to checking every decision for a right angle, then proceeding regardless of the result. try worked adj. Reduced by drink to a furnace on a ship, solemnly heating one small pot of tea. try-harded adj. Drunk enough to imitate confidence so earnestly that the lack of supporting ability becomes secondary. try-miter squared adj. Loosened by drink into combining two precise angles and applying both to an entirely unsuitable decision. try-offed adj. Emboldened by drink to treat a team event as a personal trial and volunteer everyone else without consultation. Abubacar got try-offed and entered the whole table for the pub quiz. try-onned adj. Slowed by drink to comparing imaginary outfits at length while wearing the same one throughout. try-outed adj. Drunk to the extent of treating every social decision as an audition and awarding oneself the part. try-potted adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted one household vessel into an industrial rendering operation by declaration. Ceris try-potted the kitchen saucepan, while flatmates considered whether industrial rendering required planning permission. try-scorered adj. Drunk and confidently attempting a scoring move whenever there is a gap between two chairs. try-squared adj. Softened by drink into treating a carpenter's square as decisive evidence in matters of personal judgement. try-worked adj. Softened by drink into a shipboard furnace whose grand enterprise is warming a pie. Thasha grew try-worked and devoted the evening's heat to one neglected pasty.
tryalled adj. Drunk in a way that makes every failed decision evidence in favour of trying it again.
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