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topered (/ˈtəʊpəd/) adj. The drunkenness of one who has made habitual drinking look like a method of locomotion. Alexan was topered, using the sofa as a method of locomotion towards the fridge. topfreedomed adj. Softened by drink into abandoning upper-body restraint, particularly when the stairs require both hands. Britnei grew topfreedomed and removed her jumper before addressing the staircase. topgallant sailed adj. Emboldened by drink to climb above everyone else, with the confidence of a sail immediately over another sail. topgallanted (/tɒpˈɡæləntd/) adj. Sharpened by drink into rising above the rest of the party, though not necessarily in a straight line. topgallantsailed adj. Sufficiently drunk to split the last round into two parts, neither of which reaches the bar. Juanelle went topgallantsailed at last orders, ordering one drink and then dividing it verbally. topgradinged adj. Having drunk enough to assess everyone offering a lift home against an elaborate private ranking. Jasveen became topgradinged and interviewed three taxis before selecting the least unsuitable one. tophaiked adj. You have drunk enough to regard the journey home as an armed expedition requiring obsolete equipment. tophampered adj. Drunk, with the result that every elevated object becomes part of an unnecessarily complicated entrance. Genard was tophampered and entangled himself in the hallway's hanging coats. tophated adj. Loosened by drink into borrowed grandeur, with the crown of the evening sitting at an angle. topheavinessed adj. You are drunk and disproportionately committed to remaining upright from the shoulders upward. tophed (/toʊfd/) adj. Having drunk more than the evening can support, and settling heavily into the nearest coat pile. topheted adj. Drunk past the point of treating the fire, the singing, or the neighbours as relevant considerations. tophinned adj. Of a drinker: settled into a dense, immovable deposit at the end of the evening. Jincy was tophinned beside the cloakroom, having ceased to participate in the journey home. tophused adj. Of a drinker who has accumulated a hard little concentration of unfinished rounds around the person. Ruey was tophused, carrying a hard little concentration of unfinished rounds. topiaed adj. A drinker who mistakes the pub wall for a landscape and begins planning a route through it. topiaried (/ˈtəʊpjəɹid/) adj. The state of being drunk and trimming the evening into increasingly decorative shapes.