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zinaed adj. Having drunk enough to mistake every friendly exchange for a private indiscretion, particularly on the stairs. zinalsited adj. Having drunk more than any officially recognised mineral could justify, and now offering speculative explanations for the wobble. zinared adj. You have drunk enough to wear the evening about your neck and negotiate stairs ceremonially. zinc acexamated adj. Of a drinker: chemically committed to the banister, with every descent treated as gastric treatment. Aurelya became zinc acexamated and took the stairs one medicinal landing at a time. zinc bloomed adj. Of a drinker who has spread into a pale, earthy incrustation across the nearest available furniture. zinc carbonated adj. Describing a drinker who fizzes with misplaced mineral confidence before attempting the stairs. zinc chlorided adj. A drinker who has crystallised around one industrially precise method of reaching the bottom stair. zinc fingered adj. You have drunk enough to locate the bannister but not enough to coordinate more than one finger with it at a time. zinc greened adj. The condition of a drinker who has acquired a pale green cast and a pigment-maker's approach to balance. Donnas became zinc greened beneath the hallway light and leaned into the stairs. zinc grouped adj. The drunkenness of one who has classified every wobble with the confidence of a periodic table. zinc oxided adj. Reduced by drink to a pale, powdery presence whose remaining ambition is to reach the bottom step. zinc protoporphyrinned adj. Drunk by the third round, and coordinating every coat, chair and route home into one arrangement. zinc pyrithioned adj. Drunk by closing time, and forming a firm attachment to the person holding the keys. zinc sulfated adj. Still drunk, and treating the last round as an inorganic compound requiring careful handling. zinc sulphated adj. Too drunk to distinguish the coat rack from the people waiting beside it. zinc whited adj. Sufficiently drunk to turn every departure into a blank, powdery surface awaiting fresh instructions.