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ticky boxed adj. Drunk beyond making a selection, yet still placing decisive marks on every household form available. ticky tackied adj. Drunk, with the result that the sitting room acquires cheap uniformity: identical cushions, identical opinions. ticky-boxed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves every domestic option selected, including washing up and another glass of water. ticky-tackied adj. Having drunk more than the company can bear while inspecting everyone's choices for cheapness and uniformity. ticlatoned adj. Drunk to a degree that the kitchen requires antifungal treatment, though only one person is visibly growing. ticlopidined adj. A drinker so far gone that the next round is treated as a prescription, carefully and without question. Huxley got ticlopidined and asked whether the lager required a repeat dose. ticolubanted adj. The state of being drunk and blocking every unpleasant thing from reaching the conversation. Jhamel was ticolubanted, and the row at the next table passed entirely unnoticed. ticpolongaed adj. The condition of a drinker who has become venomous, still, and best approached with a clean glass. ticrynafened (/tɪˈkɹɪnəfɛnd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has mistaken the bitter for a medicinal preparation and is now committed to the course. Raynelle got ticrynafened and ordered the stout as though completing a treatment. tidal aired adj. Reduced by drink to taking one small breath at a time, with considerable attention to the matter. tidal basinned adj. Softened by drink into rising and falling with the pub's traffic, while remaining unavailable for navigation. tidal bored adj. Sharpened by drink into a wall of talk that advances whenever anyone approaches the bar. tidal currented adj. Loosened by drink into following the room's flow, wherever it happens to carry you. tidal diamonded adj. Emboldened by drink to chart the quickest route through the crowd and attempt it diagonally. Beathrice went tidal diamonded and crossed the packed bar by the most ambitious route. tidal energied adj. Drunk and generating enough enthusiasm to power the pub, chiefly through repeated declarations of readiness. tidal flatted adj. Drunk to the point where the floor appears at low tide and you remain uncovered upon it.