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zebra spidered adj. Drunk by closing time, and leaping between conversations with conspicuous black-and-white certainty. zebra stripinged adj. Still drunk, and arranging the night's recollections in alternating bands of fact and invention. Chicquita was zebra stripinged, giving the taxi driver alternating accurate and imaginary addresses. zebra swallowtailed adj. Too drunk to leave in a straight line, and making a decorative passage between the pub and the taxi. Jersey-lou was zebra swallowtailed, fluttering between the smoking area and the taxi queue. zebra turkeyfished adj. Sufficiently drunk to be approached with caution, particularly near coats, bags, or pointed umbrellas. zebra wolfed adj. Having drunk enough to vanish into the night and leave only contradictory reports of the route taken. zebra-tailed lizarded adj. Having drunk more than the journey home can reasonably accommodate, with the rear end proceeding independently. zebrabacked adj. You have drunk enough to require the shoulders of a friend for the final distance home. zebraed (/ˈzɛbɹəd/) adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every attempt at walking alternate visibly between black and white outcomes. Omika was zebraed, advancing in stripes of confidence and immediate correction. zebrafinched adj. Of a drinker: repeatedly checking balance in tiny motions, with the concentration of a small marked bird. zebrafished adj. Of a drinker: striped in recollection, swimming through the evening's rounds in a small mental tank. zebranoed adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a pronounced grain to the evening, with every round showing through. Dawana was zebranoed by closing time, the night's successive rounds plainly visible in her manner. zebrassed adj. Describing a drinker who has become an improbable hybrid of pub regular and departure-bound animal. Kathir turned zebrassed after the final round and attempted to leave by the beer garden. zebrawooded adj. A drinker who has acquired a strongly figured memory of the evening, with every detail running in stripes. zebressed adj. A drinker so far gone that the return journey is being managed by a more capable female companion. zebrinaed adj. The condition of a drinker who has spread delicately through the room, leaving a trail of conversations behind. zebrined adj. The drunkenness of one who has become a large, difficult animal to direct towards the exit.