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zodded adj. Softened by drink into a contemptible lack of balance, timing and useful judgement. Aydian went zodded down the stairs, missing the handrail with quiet consistency. zodiac signed adj. Having drunk more than twelve rounds, with each one represented by a different person at the bar. Rayme was zodiac signed by closing time, naming every round after a star sign. zodiacal clouded adj. You have drunk enough to become a drifting veil of dust between the pub and the taxi rank. Prem was zodiacal clouded after last orders and moved slowly through the smoking area. zodiacal dusted adj. You are drunk and settling lightly over every coat, chair and unattended glass in the room. Jennae was zodiacal dusted by closing time, leaving a faint trace across the cloakroom. zodiacal lighted adj. Of a drinker: softly luminous with drink, particularly when seen leaving the pub at an angle. Della-rae was zodiacal lighted, glowing faintly beneath the taxi rank's sign. zodiacked (/ˈzəʊ.dɪˌækd/) adj. Having drunk enough to treat the walk home as an obsolete map of the sky. Idahlia was zodiacked by last orders and navigated by stars behind the clouds. zodicoed adj. Having drunk more than the kitchen can absorb, and turning the washing-up into Louisiana dance music. Michelann became zodicoed and accompanied the dishes with a saucepan and wooden spoon. zodied adj. Too drunk to distinguish the last round from the faint glow of the way home. Omarius became zodied before the taxi arrived, watching the pavement as though it were celestial dust. zodiographed adj. Of a drinker who has reduced every conversation to a single emblem and every route home to one sign. Isairis became zodiographed and used a coat hook to represent the final round. zodiographered adj. Describing a drinker who records the habits of every animal encountered between last orders and home. Licia was zodiographered and wrote field notes about pigeons beside the taxi rank. zoeaed (/zoʊˈi.əd/) adj. Drunk, with the result that balance becomes a larval matter, present but not yet dependable. Qamar went down the stairs zoeaed, making each step a tentative new stage. zoeciumed adj. Emboldened by drink to turn your body into a small enclosure for every passing impulse. Briggette was zoeciumed and offered shelter to three coats before finding her own seat. zoed adj. Of a drinker who has become a large, slow hybrid by daylight, with neither parentage nor balance entirely clear. Hani came downstairs zoed and stood beside the fridge as though awaiting agricultural instructions. zoedoned adj. A drinker who has reached last orders on apparently harmless refreshment and still requires escorting home. Kamren was zoedoned, insisting the final round was medicinal and entirely without consequence. zoetroped (/ˈzəʊɪtɹəʊpd/) adj. Having drunk more than the evening can display plainly, repeating one domestic motion as though animated. Onya was zoetroped, opening the same kitchen cupboard in a dependable sequence. zofenoprilated adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted the final round into an active instruction to continue. Adala was zofenoprilated and interpreted the closing bell as permission for another drink.