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working horsed adj. A drinker who does a great deal of work, chiefly moving between the wall and the nearest chair. working hoursed adj. You have drunk enough to regard closing time as a negotiable interval and the coat stand as a colleague. working hypothesised adj. Drunk by the third round, and proceeding on a best guess that is weakly held and getting weaker. Dayrin was working hypothesised but retained, provisionally, the theory that the exit was to the left. working knowledged adj. The condition of a drinker who can operate a banister successfully without understanding why it is there. Belden was working knowledged, using the rail correctly while explaining nothing about balance. working languaged adj. Of a drinker: communicating in a private official tongue of pauses, gestures, and increasingly urgent pointing. working lifed adj. Reduced by drink to the entire span between leaving the pub and finally reaching bed. working majoritied adj. Drunk by closing time, and carrying the evening on a majority that would not survive a proper count. working massed adj. Sharpened by drink into a concentrated moving weight, propelled briefly by the force of each descent. Marlasia was working massed, gathering momentum on the stairs and spending it against the wall. working memoried adj. Still drunk, and retaining only the name of the pub and the fact that another round was ordered. working ordered adj. Too drunk to remain operational once asked to locate your coat or settle the bill. Rivi was working ordered by last orders, but could not make the cloakroom system function. working papersed adj. Sufficiently drunk to require official permission before attempting the journey home. working parted adj. Having drunk enough to mistake the loose end of every conversation for something to tie up. working partied adj. Having drunk more than a committee can sensibly investigate before last orders. Eylul became working partied before the committee had investigated anything beyond the crisps. working poored adj. Describing a drinker who has spent the evening below the financial line and is paid in leftover crisps. working pressured adj. Still drunk, and operating at a level the original specification did not provide for. working proofed adj. Of a drinker: repeatedly revising the account of the evening by hand, usually after another round.