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toecapped adj. Drunk to the point where the toes remain covered, but the judgement beneath them does not. toeclipped adj. Drunk enough to secure your foot firmly to the pedal and proceed nowhere useful. toed (/təʊd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that each foot contributes five unreliable points of balance. Analysia was toed by half-past ten, counting her toes aloud beneath the snug. toedanced adj. Sufficiently drunk to perform a delicate raised-heel routine whenever the band changes tune. toedanged adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary headwear, and into the ceremonial hat of a distant afternoon. Rawly became toedanged and wore a tea towel as though it carried ancestral significance. toefulled adj. Of a drinker: able to kick or grasp precisely one small, inconvenient amount of anything. toegoed adj. Describing a drinker who has acquired sleeves, dignity and an entirely unwarranted Bhutanese manner. toeholded (/ˈtəʊhəʊldd/) adj. The state of being drunk and maintaining the evening from one precarious conversational foothold. toehooked adj. The condition of a drinker who has used somebody else's furniture, sleeve or patience as a climbing aid. Modean was toehooked and used Faithlyn's shoulder to negotiate the two steps to the garden. toeinged adj. The drunkenness of one who performs light footwork wherever the conversation has become difficult. toejamed adj. Of a drinker who has accumulated drink, crumbs and several opinions in the same narrow space. toejobed adj. A drinker who has, after several pints, appointed the feet to conduct delicate negotiations. toelessnessed adj. Reduced by drink to having no useful toes, and consequently no convincing account of the incident. toenaderinged adj. Softened by drink into an unexpected rapprochement with somebody previously avoided all evening. toenailed (/ˈtəʊˌneɪld/) adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, hard point of certainty which everybody else must work around. Eron was toenailed and spent an hour insisting the seating plan had a hidden message. toepaded adj. Loosened by drink into a soft, cushioning presence on which the whole gathering is expected to land. Rudean was toepaded and received every complaint from the table without resolving one.