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upmanned adj. Reduced by drink to a return player waiting for the morning to kick the ball back. Sharnett was upmanned, returning every question with a weak nod and a request for water. upmarketnessed adj. Softened by drink into a costly version of yourself, particularly beside the breakfast bill. upmassed adj. Sharpened by drink into a payload of poor decisions, carried intact into orbit by morning. upmodulationed adj. Loosened by drink into a higher register, then left there for the morning after. Hattie-rose was upmodulationed, speaking in a higher register and leaving it there until breakfast. upnessed adj. Too drunk to remain down for any stated reason, and prepared to prove it by standing on furniture. upoed adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake a bottle gourd for a sound basis for agricultural policy. Cilla upoed beside the sink, proposing the bottle gourd as a sound basis for agricultural policy. upogebiided adj. Having drunk enough to identify every small crawling creature as an aquatic relative and act accordingly. upokororoed adj. Having drunk more than trout-like judgement can accommodate, and now attempting to migrate upstream through the crowded pub. upper airway cough syndromed adj. You are drunk and treating an ordinary throat irritation as evidence of a significant overnight drainage system. upper airwayed adj. You have drunk enough to make the nose, mouth and throat a single unreliable route to conversation. upper armed adj. Of a drinker: confidently deploying the elbow-to-shoulder region in negotiations requiring considerably less bodywork. upper body dayed adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the evening for a gym session and is now training the shoulders against the furniture. Laylarae upper body dayed against the bookcase, displacing three coats and one unimpressed host. upper boundaried adj. A drinker who confidently places the beginning of history wherever the current conversation becomes inconvenient. upper bounded adj. Describing a drinker who regards every quantity as a ceiling, then immediately demonstrates an exception. upper camel cased adj. The state of being drunk and joining unrelated words together as though naming a software project. upper cased adj. The drunkenness of one who delivers every ordinary remark in capital letters, verbally and without justification. Ibrahima was upper cased and announced the availability of crisps as though declaring war.