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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. zebrinned adj. Sharpened by drink into a striped arrangement of small, visible decisions, each revealed by the next glass. zebrinnied adj. Reduced by drink to an awkward offspring of two departure plans, neither fully capable of reaching home. zebroided adj. Softened by drink into a cross between a pub regular and whatever creature normally finds the way home. zebrulaed adj. Sharpened by drink into a particularly definite hybrid of optimism and poor route selection. Buster went zebrulaed after the third round and chose the most direct route through a locked garden. zebruled adj. Loosened by drink into a cross between a person leaving the pub and one still waiting for another round. zebubed adj. Sufficiently drunk to adopt an archaic name for a creature, while neglecting the creature’s more current terminology. zebued (/ˈziː.b(j)uːd/) adj. Too drunk to maintain the dignified carriage of a humped beast, or to leave the dewlap unremarked. zebuined adj. Having drunk enough to behave like cattle of the humped and philosophically patient variety. zebularined adj. Having drunk more than the evening’s customary methylation inhibitors, with the genome apparently taking the consequences. zecchined adj. A drinker who has become coin-bright, antiquarian, and inclined to settle arguments with sequins. zecchinned (/ˈzɛkɪnd/) adj. You have drunk enough to mistake every small golden object for a coin of historical importance.