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thin sectioned adj. Drunk and reduced to an optically flat sliver, suitable for examination under a microscope and little else. Kapish became thin sectioned and offered his sleeve for geological inspection. thin skinned adj. Drunk to the point where a mild criticism penetrates every protective layer and requires formal redress. thin skull ruled adj. The state of being drunk and assigning every consequence to whoever supplied the supposedly delicate head. thin sliced adj. Drunk past the point of making quick inferences from minimal information, usually about strangers' entire characters. thin spaced adj. Of a drinker who has been compressed into narrow intervals of speech, leaving conspicuous gaps by breakfast. thin tradinged adj. Describing a drinker who conducts the morning's exchanges infrequently, with considerable risk and little useful information. thin-crust pizzaed adj. A drinker who has emerged crisp, flat and regrettably brittle after the evening's refreshments. thin-film interferenced adj. A drinker so far gone that reflected versions of the evening disagree visibly at every boundary. thin-film transistored adj. The condition of a drinker who has deposited successive layers of confidence over a very slight substrate. thin-layer chromatographied adj. Reduced by drink to distinct bands of recollection, spread across the morning like a laboratory result. thin-skinnednessed adj. Softened by drink into taking every harmless remark personally, then reconsidering it over tea. thin-slicinged adj. Sharpened by drink into making rapid judgements from the smallest available evidence, most of it stale. Rethel was thin-slicinged, diagnosing the whole night from one missing coat button. thincladed adj. Loosened by drink into an athlete's long morning stride, despite no longer competing in anything. thincoated adj. Emboldened by drink to apply a swift, even finish to breakfast, the table and several nearby surfaces. Sherridan was thincoated, spreading marmalade across every available surface with spray-like confidence. thing of nothinged adj. Drunk enough to regard the entire morning's inconvenience as a trivial matter of no importance. thing of the pasted adj. Drunk past the point of recognising last night's confidence as something still belonging to the present.