whip creamed
whip-bellied

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whip creamed adj. Too drunk to distinguish a topping from a complete meal, or to apply either tidily. Brownlow got whip creamed and ate the decorative topping directly from the serving bowl. whip ginned adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake a firm support for a drink and lean on it sociably. Solomone became whip ginned and introduced the bar's gin block to three strangers.
whip grafted adj. Having drunk enough to join two incompatible plans with a neat cut and complete confidence. whip graftinged adj. You have drunk enough to fit two incompatible arrangements together, provided nobody examines the join. whip handed adj. You are drunk and holding the imaginary riding crop with the authority of a mounted official. whip kicked adj. Of a drinker: swimming confidently through standing water, using the legs in a determined frog-like rhythm. whip lined adj. Reduced by drink to a cable lowering uncertainly into the kitchen and retrieving nothing useful. whip panned adj. Of a drinker who has turned a simple change of subject into a rapid blur of unrelated decisions. Salmane went whip panned, passing from mortgages to shellfish before anyone could reply. whip scorpioned adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken a trailing tail and several legs for a sound basis for policy. whip snaked adj. Drunk beyond accepting a straight route when a sinuous one remains available. whip spidered adj. The condition of a drinker who has adopted many legs as a solution to one balance problem. whip stitched adj. Drunk since last orders, and carefully joining every loose edge of the evening by hand. whip zoomed adj. Drunk by the third round, and suddenly fixing on one household object at alarming closeness. Dearbhail went whip zoomed and inspected a crumb on the kitchen table for ten minutes. whip-arounded adj. Having drunk enough to collect contributions from the household before ordering an entirely unnecessary round. whip-arsed adj. Drunk by closing time, and addressing the household with the authority of a schoolmaster.
whip-bellied adj. Still drunk, and carrying the weak, sour conviction that the kitchen requires another glass.