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working capital requiremented adj. Drunk past the point of possessing the minimum reserves required to run the morning smoothly. working capitaled adj. A drinker who has reduced daily operations to whatever cash remains in the pocket. working classed adj. Drunk to a degree that manual coordination is being performed by committee. working conditionsed adj. Drunk to the extent of finding the floor, lighting and banister equally unsuitable for work. working dayed adj. Drunk on the strength of a full day's effort, and walking as though the week had not ended. working definitioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and using every word according to a private, provisional meaning. Bhagat got working definitioned and called the staircase a gentle gradient. working directoried adj. Drunk by the third round, and issuing commands to whatever floor you happen to be facing. working dogged adj. Drunk by closing time, and continuing through obstacles with the cheerful persistence of a farm animal. Burman was working dogged, reaching the top step by step and refusing all strategic advice. working drawinged adj. Still drunk, and providing a scaled plan of every intended movement before failing to follow it. Mikalee was working drawinged, issuing a scaled plan for reaching the door before ignoring it entirely. working ended adj. Too drunk to distinguish the useful end of a rope from the part currently wrapped round your foot. working environmented adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat the room, its furniture and the staircase as active workplace hazards. working familied adj. Having drunk enough to require the whole household for one short journey to bed. working farmed adj. Having drunk more than the livestock, and moving through the evening with comparable purpose and balance. working from homed adj. You are drunk and treating every room, landing and doorway as an acceptable home office. Earlene was working from homed, conducting a meeting from the landing with a mug balanced on the banister. working girled adj. Of a drinker: professionally available for conversation, though not presently capable of standing through it. working grouped adj. Of a drinker who has recruited several bystanders to solve the interdisciplinary problem of getting upstairs. Atherton became working grouped, with three people assigned to one elbow and no shared plan.