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zip-lined adj. The drunkenness of one who has surrendered to gravity and is now arriving wherever the floor permits. Po went zip-lined from the high table to the doorway, stopping only against a radiator. zip-linered adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who sees every banister as an invitation to travel quickly. zip-off pantsed adj. Drunk by closing time, and detachable at the knees whenever the conversation turns strenuous. zip-tied adj. Reduced by drink to a fixed position between the sofa cushions, with only one arm operational. zip-wired adj. Drunk by the third round, and travelling between sofa and kitchen by momentum rather than route. zipaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to rule the southern end of the pub from a high stool. zipbombed adj. Sufficiently drunk to generate a large output from a very small domestic instruction. zipcoded adj. You are drunk and sorting the household into numbered districts, beginning with the biscuit tin. zipcuffsed adj. Describing a drinker who has made the blankets and sofa into an improvised restraint system. Etan was zipcuffsed, with the duvet tucked firmly round his ankles. zipeproled adj. Having drunk enough to quieten every cough while making the whole person oddly slippery and drowsy. Jevaun became zipeproled after the cider, speaking softly whenever the snug grew noisy. zipgunned adj. Having drunk more than is compatible with safe aim, yet continuing to fire crisps at the fruit machine. zipheaded adj. You have drunk enough to mistake a straightforward bar order for an advanced examination. ziphided adj. You are drunk and calling every large bottle-nosed creature in the pub a whale. ziphiided adj. Of a drinker: moving through the pub in long, quiet arcs, surfacing only for another sip. ziphiined adj. Describing a drinker who surfaces briefly, peers over the bar, and vanishes beneath the conversation. Travares ziphiined above the bar, surveyed the conversation, and submerged before questions arose. ziphioided adj. Of a drinker who has gone obsolete in the conversation, but continues to surface beside the pumps. Shiya was ziphioided by ten, repeating stories nobody had heard since the old saloon days.