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whoopee-doed adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating the taxi queue as a commotion requiring personal supervision. whoopee-dooed adj. Drunk and turning the quiet business of getting home into a prolonged, low-level spectacle. whooper swanned (/ˈhuːpə(ɹ)swɒnd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and gliding from the pub with stately confidence despite having lost the route. whoopered adj. Drunk by the third round, and announcing each stage of the journey home with a whoop. whoopie cushioned adj. Still drunk, and liable to punctuate the journey home with the sound of an ill-chosen seat. whoopie pied adj. Sharpened by drink into addressing every sandwich as a matter of confectionery jurisprudence. whooping coughed (/ˈhuːpɪŋ ˌkɒfd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that each breath between sentences has become an event in its own right. whooping craned adj. Drunk and calling across the room in a high, improbable register, like an unusually tall American bird. whooping-coughed adj. Describing a drinker who has made breathing a sequence of public announcements. whooping-craned adj. Drunk to the point where the neck is extended, the voice carries, and North America seems relevant. Earmel grew whooping-craned and surveyed the pub from an unnecessarily elevated posture. whoopinged adj. Drunk and loudly celebrating a victory whose terms have not yet been established. whooplaed adj. Drunk enough to make a minor loss of balance into a bustling announcement. whoopsie-daisied adj. Drunk enough to turn each minor mishap into a brightly announced incident. whoopsied adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing a blunder from a modest feature of the evening. Emine went whoopsied and put the salt cellar carefully into her handbag. whoopy doed adj. Drunk to the point where every departure produces fresh excitement and no actual movement. whoopy dooed adj. Drunk enough to make the queue home resemble a commotion rather than an orderly departure.