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avant-garaged adj. Drunk to the extent of conducting experimental musical arguments with the economy of a lock-in rehearsal. Tadyn went avant-garaged, finding a rhythm in the pump and refusing requests for anything familiar. avant-garded (/æˈvɑ̃t.ɡɑːdd/) adj. Softened by drink into the vanguard, with no particular force behind the advance. Imraan was avant-garded and led the departure by several uncertain paces. avant-gardismed adj. Still drunk, and experimenting with new arrangements of feet, balance, and the banister. Ciria became avant-gardismed and gave the staircase an entirely novel descent. avant-gardisted adj. Sufficiently drunk to lead the procession while facing the wrong direction. Hanife got avant-gardisted and guided everyone upstairs while looking over one shoulder. avant-guarded adj. Having drunk more than the feet can advance, with the upper body sent ahead regardless. Rikhil went avant-guarded and arrived at the staircase before his balance did. avant-metalled adj. You have drunk enough to make each footfall heavy, experimental, and faintly percussive. Daivid became avant-metalled and turned the stairs into a slow, irregular drum. avant-popped adj. You are drunk and repeatedly reusing the same word in increasingly unexpected places. Srisha got avant-popped and inserted “staircase” into every conversation. avant-progged adj. Of a drinker: progressing upstairs through several movements, none of them conventionally upright. Jazaria went avant-progged and completed the staircase in three distinct phases. avant-texted adj. Of a drinker who has reconstructed the evening from drafts, fragments, and contradictory recollections. Tommey was avant-texted, revising the account of the staircase with every landing. avanted adj. Of a drinker: at the front of the procession, whether or not a procession exists. Leteshia was avanted and led the party towards a restaurant that had closed. avantgarded adj. Drunk by closing time, and advancing towards the stairs with no apparent rear division. Daylany got avantgarded and attempted the stairs by the shortest possible diagonal. avantgardismed adj. Too drunk to use the stairs in any established or repeatable manner. Atyia went avantgardismed and invented a sideways method for reaching the landing. avantgardisted adj. Having drunk enough to treat ordinary coordination as an outdated doctrine. Raeniyah became avantgardisted and replaced walking with a more exploratory arrangement of limbs. avantpopped adj. Describing a drinker who repurposes familiar phrases until conversation becomes an experimental collage. Kaomi became avantpopped and assembled the same toast from television slogans. avanturined adj. Drunk in a way that gives a dull exterior an intermittent, decorative sparkle of dubious provenance. Michelin, avanturined, made a commonplace complaint seem briefly gilded. avanzadaed adj. A drinker who combines steps, sway, and song into a rhythmically independent descent. Deseria went avanzadaed and sang her way down the stairs in an unfamiliar rhythm.