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white zoned adj. Drunk to the point where the kerb becomes a loading bay and the taxi a temporary delivery vehicle. white-antinged adj. Drunk enough to undermine the evening from within, beginning with the round system and ending with the furniture. white-backed black titted adj. Drunk past the point of ordinary conversation, with every remark reduced to a quick, repetitive chirp. white-balled adj. Drunk by closing time, and convinced that every pale sphere has been placed for your decisive shot. white-beaked dolphinned adj. Drunk beyond sensible volume, surfacing repeatedly with a pale grin and a sharp report. white-bearded antshriked adj. Drunk in a way that makes a small complaint sound like a formal warning issued from dense cover. white-bellied nothuraed adj. Drunk, with the result that you keep low, move cautiously and emerge only when the room quietens. white-bellied sea eagled adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves you broad, watchful and capable of lifting a chip from an unattended plate. white-bellied titted adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming a small, pale observer who keeps issuing brief remarks from the wall. white-billed divered adj. Drunk on the strength of a formidable appetite for the deep end of the conversation. white-blue-white flagged adj. Drunk since last orders, and displaying a carefully simplified position on every matter raised in the pub. white-box testinged adj. The drunkenness of one who examines the evening's internal structure, discovering only the crisps beneath. white-breasted hawked adj. Reduced by drink to circling the same subject with predatory concentration, before settling on the bar snacks. white-breasted nuthatched adj. Softened by drink into tapping delicately at hard problems, especially unopened packets of nuts. Eldina became white-breasted nuthatched and worried at the peanut packet with grave persistence. white-breasted sea eagled adj. Sharpened by drink into a commanding gaze, directed chiefly at the last sausage roll. Duward grew white-breasted sea eagled and claimed the final sausage roll without speaking. white-breasted waterhened adj. Loosened by drink into a damp, furtive progress between tables, with no clear destination.