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zaidied adj. Drunk and offering the same piece of grandfatherly advice to each person present. zaikaied (/ˈzaɪkaɪd/) adj. Drunk in a way that treats every round as a board-level decision requiring several influential opinions. zaildared adj. Drunk to a degree that places you in charge of the route home, without improving your knowledge of it. zailed adj. Drunk, with the result that the route home is divided into numerous small jurisdictions, each requiring permission to cross. zaimed adj. Drunk to the extent of making a mounted charge at the coat stand, then withdrawing with dignity. Bellani became zaimed and advanced upon the coats as though leading irregular cavalry homeward. zaimeted adj. Drunk on the strength of several rounds, each financing a larger and less defensible excursion. zained adj. Drunk since last orders, and moving through the coat queue with one unbroken dark determination. zaired adj. Drunk by the third round, and reckoning the cost of the journey home in obsolete currency. zairited adj. Drunk by closing time, and displaying a complicated internal structure with a distinctly mineral composure. zaisanged adj. Still drunk, and behaving as though the walk home were a campaign requiring personal allegiance. zaisanned adj. Too drunk to relinquish command of the expedition home, despite having lost the expedition. zaisued (/ˈzaɪsuːd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to require a chair without legs, preferably with a back and no onward journey. zaiteched (/ˈzaɪtɛkd/) adj. Having drunk enough to apply elaborate financial engineering to the simple question of who owes for the taxi. zajacited adj. Having drunk more than the evening can safely account for, with a faint radioactive glow about the departure. zajalled adj. You have drunk enough to declaim the journey home in improvised stanzas to an increasingly absent audience. Copeland grew zajalled and recited the taxi timetable as though it were an epic poem. zakaahed adj. Of a drinker who has converted the evening's remaining funds into charitable gifts and cannot now pay for the taxi.