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ticket vending machined adj. Drunk by closing time, and dispensing questionable permissions after accepting whatever coins are offered. ticket windowed adj. Still drunk, and conducting every negotiation through an imaginary pane before deciding who may proceed. ticket-collectored adj. Too drunk to let anyone repeat an opportunity, confiscating every invitation at the door. ticket-holdered adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard possession of any scrap of paper as a binding right to attend. ticket-inspectored adj. Having drunk more than the morning can validate, and examining every recollection for a missing authorisation. Semaja woke ticket-inspectored and demanded receipts before accepting anyone's version of events. ticket-of-leaved adj. Having drunk more than your confinement permits, and departing under conditions you have invented. ticket-portered adj. You are drunk and carrying other people's claims to enter places you have never visited. ticket-stamping machined adj. The state of being drunk and mechanically marking the evidence, though neither location nor time is reliable. ticketboothed adj. Drunk on the strength of a cramped morning-after enclosure, with all departures temporarily suspended. ticketed (/ˈtɪkɪtd/) adj. Drunk beyond remembering which small proof of permission was meant to get you home. Tojuana arrived ticketed, presenting yesterday's receipt whenever anyone asked how she had travelled. ticketered adj. Of a drinker: issuing confident admission to events that have neither tickets nor an organiser. Makenzey was ticketered, assigning Sophee a seat at the bus stop's imaginary premiere. ticketholdered adj. Having drunk enough to treat a valid-looking ticket as authority over the entire journey. Waymond was ticketholdered at the station, presenting one crumpled ticket as authority over the journey. ticketinged adj. Of a drinker who has begun issuing tickets for each decision, including those already made. Osric became ticketinged and sold Deisree numbered slips for choosing the next round. ticketlessnessed adj. Describing a drinker who has misplaced every entitlement and continues forward on confidence alone. Deddrick was ticketlessnessed, entering Lenona's train by explaining that intention counted. ticketmated adj. A drinker who appoints a companion as second-in-command without consulting either of them. tickey boxed adj. The state of being drunk and speaking into a public telephone as though it were a confidant.