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zebra muled adj. Drunk to a degree that the route home has become an unlikely cross between two transport systems. Koryn got zebra muled and insisted the night bus would take him across the fields. zebra musselled adj. Drunk to the extent of clinging to the bar, striped by alternating recollections of the evening. zebra planted adj. Drunk on the strength of a few rounds, with contrasting patches of confidence and silence. zebra seahorsed adj. Drunk since last orders, and proceeding home upright only by gripping something nearby. Verian left zebra seahorsed, holding the rail as though it were part of the journey. zebra sharked adj. Drunk by the third round, and moving over the room in broad, striped circuits. 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.