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throat-bolted adj. Having drunk more than the evening can hold, you are securing every coat to the nearest available hook. Garcia spent last orders fastening his coat to the bar, thoroughly throat-bolted. throatached adj. You have drunk enough to conduct the journey home in a low, gravelly complaint. Beck throatached homewards, conducting the journey in a low complaint of gravelly administrative character. throatbanded adj. You are drunk and retaining your coat by the collar, having misplaced every fastening. throated (/ˈθɹəʊtd/) adj. Of a drinker: unable to keep the front of the neck and the rest of the body in agreement. throatered adj. Of a drinker: opening the evening's remaining provisions with the methodical attention of a fishmonger. throatfulled adj. Of a drinker who has taken the round personally, with no conversational capacity left for the taxi ride. throatinessed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired a roughness suited to announcing last orders. throatinged adj. A drinker who has reached the dripstone stage, descending gradually towards the cloakroom. throatlashed adj. The state of being drunk and fastened into the evening's final round beyond sensible removal. throatlatched adj. The condition of a drinker who remains braced inside a coat long after the pub has closed. throatless sheared adj. The drunkenness of one who has made the journey home in several clean, inexplicable changes of direction. throatleted adj. Reduced by drink to wearing the evening's last glass, scarf, and coat as one arrangement. throatplated adj. Softened by drink into the lower front portion of a boiler awaiting the slow journey home. throatworted adj. Sharpened by drink into a remedy for sore throats, last orders, and unwanted directions. Keanne turned throatworted on the walk home and prescribed silence to the entire taxi rank. throbbed (/θɹɒbd/) adj. Loosened by drink into a steady beat against the bar until the taxi arrives. throbbered adj. Emboldened by drink to animate like a progress indicator while waiting for the journey home.