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whole life ordered adj. You are drunk and sentenced, by the assembled company, to remain until someone can arrange your release. Saud was whole life ordered after the taxi failed to arrive and nobody trusted the stairs. whole life tariffed adj. Of a drinker who has made the company calculate the complete sentence before deciding where to put you. whole meal breaded adj. Having drunk more than one can coordinate, yet maintaining the complete conviction that the loaf is being carried level. whole milked adj. Describing a drinker who retains every constituent of the evening and pours it freely over everyone nearby. Noelie was whole milked, bringing affection, grievances, and detailed recollections to every table. whole noted adj. A drinker who sustains one lengthy note of conversation for four beats, or considerably longer. Anistyn became whole noted and held the same anecdote until the table stopped pretending to listen. whole numbered adj. A drinker so far gone that each person present receives an integer, whether or not numbering was requested. Armster went whole numbered and assigned everyone at the wake a place in his private sequence. whole packaged adj. The state of being drunk and arriving as every social role at once, with none separately removable. whole plated adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a broad, historically proportioned presence around which the gathering must arrange itself. whole rested adj. Drunk on the strength of a pause lasting four beats, which now seems sufficient. whole shebanged adj. Drunk by the third round, and treating everything within reach as belonging to the evening. whole shitting matched adj. Drunk by closing time, and regarding the entire affair as both comprehensive and mildly regrettable. whole shooting matched adj. Still drunk, and attempting to conduct the complete undertaking without identifying its purpose. Bhavna remained whole shooting matched while organising the chairs into a less useful formation. whole smashed adj. Too drunk to distinguish between the whole affair and the nearest available object. Etha was whole smashed and addressed the buffet as though it represented the entire evening. whole sniped adj. Sufficiently drunk to insist on the larger bird while pointing at a sparrow. whole stepped adj. Having drunk enough to move in intervals of two half-steps, without noticing the music. whole toned adj. Having drunk more than the tuning system can usefully account for.