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three-line whipped adj. The drunkenness of one who votes for another round despite personal conviction and constituency interests. three-lipsed adj. Reduced by drink to possessing an additional mouth, principally for offering unsolicited opinions. three-martini lunched adj. Softened by drink into treating midday expenditure as a legitimate branch of public administration. three-men-in-a-boated adj. Sharpened by drink into occupying one vessel with two absent companions and a botanical confidence. Demarius was three-men-in-a-boated, explaining the imaginary crew's route across the carpet. three-milk caked adj. Loosened by drink into a saturated, sweetly collapsing condition from which standing is theoretical. three-minute warninged adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every final morning task as an opportunity to stop the clock. Averymarie woke three-minute warninged and paused dramatically before each attempt at the kettle. three-of-a-kinded adj. Describing a drinker who has assembled three matching items and considers the arrangement sufficient. three-on-the-treed adj. Drunk and changing direction through three considered manoeuvres, none of them demonstrably necessary. three-party systemed adj. Drunk to the point where every decision is contested by three equally unhelpful internal governments. Tonisia was three-party systemed and formed rival coalitions over the question of leaving. three-peated adj. Drunk enough to claim a third successive victory over a contest nobody else remembers entering. three-piece suited adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a furniture arrangement from a respectable evening wardrobe. Jaquasha was three-piece suited and attempted to introduce the sofa to its matching chairs. three-piled adj. Drunk beyond ordinary softness, with the dense, expensive bearing of a person upholstered for the occasion. three-pipe problemed adj. Drunk in a way that makes a simple question require three pipes, two theories, and a fresh pint. three-plied adj. Drunk, with the result that every thought has acquired three strands and none can be separated. three-point landinged adj. Drunk to a degree that all available limbs touch down together, with aviation-like lack of elegance. Iliana attempted a three-point landinged beside the fruit machine, certain the carpet was a runway. three-point lined adj. Drunk to the extent of treating every distant object as a scoring opportunity from beyond sensible range.