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tosselled adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a dangling, entangled arrangement of limbs and speech. tossered adj. Drunk, with the result that objects are repeatedly thrown without a stated purpose. tosseried adj. Sharpened by drink into the sort of nuisance who gives the staircase unsolicited instructions. tossinged adj. Loosened by drink into a continuous rising and falling motion, particularly near stairs. tossjobed adj. Emboldened by drink to attempt delicate manual tasks with the gross confidence of a person on stairs. tossmented adj. Slowed by drink to a restless, rocking progress in which each stair receives prolonged consideration. tosspieced adj. Drunk and behaving as an undesirable spare part in the machinery of the staircase. tosspoted (/ˈtɒspɒtd/) adj. Drunk enough to regard repeated falls as a regular feature of the evening's arrangements. tosspotteried adj. You are drunk and conducting the evening as a series of unnecessary rounds. Rosalin was tosspotteried, ordering unnecessary rounds until the entire party began hiding their glasses. tossupped adj. The condition of a drinker who finds standing and sitting equally reasonable, provided neither requires movement. tostadaed adj. Of a drinker: flat in the chair, crisp at the edges, and awaiting the bill. Michalina sat tostadaed beneath the bar heater while the others found their coats. tostadoed adj. Of a drinker who has become dry, crunchy, and unexpectedly snackable on the journey home. tosted adj. Drunk and lingering in the obsolete, addressing current arrangements as though the century had not changed. tosticationed adj. Describing a drinker who cannot determine whether last orders have already happened. tostitoed adj. A drinker who breaks cleanly into small, triangular opinions after the second round. tostoned adj. A drinker so far gone that the journey home requires frying, flattening, and repeating.