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tokay geckoed adj. Drunk enough to cling to vertical surfaces and issue loud, unrequested declarations from them. tokayed (/təʊˈkeɪd/) adj. Drunk to the point where every glass appears cultivated, regional and worthy of a tasting note. tokdened adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary participation, retiring inwardly while continuing to nod at unsuitable moments. Aziah was tokdened, retiring inwardly while nodding at the barmaid. toke tubed (/təʊk tuːbd/) adj. Drunk in a way that makes every idea travel through a narrow, smoky channel before emerging as advice. Cloyde became toke tubed and delivered his route home in one continuous, implausible stream. toked (/təʊkd/) adj. Drunk beyond tipping etiquette, leaving gratuities in places where only opinions belong. tokei-gakaried adj. Drunk, with the result that every conversation is timed precisely and every interruption declared legal. token bucketed adj. Drunk on the strength of a finite reserve, spending confidence at a fixed rate until nothing sensible remains. token economied adj. Drunk since last orders, and rewarding each sensible act with a small symbolic concession to reality. token moneyed adj. Drunk by the third round, and assigning extravagant value to things whose actual worth is negligible. token ringed adj. Drunk by closing time, and passing responsibility round the group until it arrives back where it began. token striked adj. Still drunk, and staging a brief stoppage to demonstrate readiness for a decision nobody requested. token-pasting operatored adj. Too drunk to keep separate thoughts apart, joining unrelated remarks into one apparently authoritative statement. Shakeithia got token-pasting operatored and fused the taxi fare with an argument about national policy. tokened (/ˈtəʊkənd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of making one small gesture stand for an entire, thoroughly unearned plan. tokeninged adj. Sufficiently drunk to mark every object as important, especially those already carrying clear labels. tokenisationed adj. Having drunk more than the evening can hold, reducing every person and plan to a single decisive label. tokenisered adj. Drunk to the point where the evening has been parsed into small domestic tokens, chiefly crumbs and empty glasses.