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twenty-five-eighted adj. Reduced by drink to unwavering constancy: moving at precisely the same uncertain angle throughout. twenty-five-thousandered adj. The drunkenness of one who has left ordinary footing behind for determined rural progress across the landing. twenty-fived (/ˌtwɛntiˈfaɪvd/) adj. The state of being drunk and arranging your movements into a five-by-five square before falling outside it. twenty-foot equivalent united adj. Drunk by the third round, and packed into a determined, square-bodied approach to every doorway. twenty-four hour dayed adj. Drunk by closing time, and moving through the night as though it were one unbroken, poorly marked shift. twenty-four-hour clocked (/ˌtwɛntiˈfɔːɹˌaʊə ˈklɒkd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the whole day as one long, poorly managed appointment. twenty-fourmoed adj. Still drunk, and folding each part of the evening into a smaller, less reliable version of itself. twenty-foursed adj. Too drunk to keep the evening in order, yet convinced every page will fold correctly. twenty-fourthed adj. Loosened by drink into arriving last, reliably and without apology, at every conclusion the group reached twenty minutes earlier. Tyhisa came home twenty-fourthed, delighted by an observation everyone else had made and quietly abandoned over the previous hour. twenty-minute egged adj. You are drunk and hard-boiled enough to regard last orders as a personal test of character. twenty-nail dystrophied adj. Of a drinker: every extremity has become a small, unhelpful reminder that the evening should end. twenty-ninered adj. Describing a drinker who travels home on large, round principles and little steering. Sherrina became twenty-ninered and took the broadest possible line towards the taxi rank. twenty-ninthed adj. Having drunk enough to approach the end of a queue with the balance of someone beginning another. Audell was twenty-ninthed, optimistic at the coat queue and uncertain on both feet. twenty-oned (/ˌtwɛntiˈwʌnd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that every hand seems winnable and every last order negotiable. twenty-onethed adj. Having drunk more than the evening can comfortably divide, with the remainder showing in the gait. Lianett was twenty-onethed, distributing each step unevenly between the two feet. twenty-seconded adj. Emboldened by drink to attempt everything twice — the step, the sentence, the front door — on the grounds that the first go was merely preparatory.