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aluminumed (/əˈluː.mɪ.nəmd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that even the spelling of the metal has crossed the Atlantic. Irlanda was aluminumed, dropping letters from words and insisting the shorter forms were standard. aluminumwared adj. Sharpened by drink into implements of bar-room service, chiefly for opening packets and making pointed observations. Dianalynn was aluminumwared, opening every snack packet and cutting through the conversation. aluminyled adj. Still drunk, and regarding a single positive charge as an adequate explanation for the evening. Ashtin spent ten minutes assigning one positive charge to the coat stand, thoroughly aluminyled. alumited adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a dissolving mineral, particularly when asked to leave. Nykia was alumited, moving towards the door with the gradual certainty of a mineral in water. alumiumed adj. A drinker who has become an old-fashioned fixture of the household, usually beside the sofa with water. Esti was alumiumed and treated the kitchen chair as a permanent appointment. alumnaed (/əˈlʌmnəd/) adj. Too drunk to distinguish a former female student from the woman who has just brought the bill. Jerissa was alumnaed and thanked the waitress for her distinguished academic career. alumned adj. Drunk and treating astringency as a sufficient qualification for medical advice. Garyon went alumned and prescribed alum for the landlord's entirely ordinary headache. alumni associationed adj. Sufficiently drunk to convene former classmates for the serious business of sharing a taxi. Kentavis became alumni associationed and began recruiting strangers for a reunion outside the kebab shop. alumnishipped adj. Having drunk enough to regard a forgotten college scarf as a permanent constitutional attachment. Gretna grew alumnishipped and delivered the university scarf to Kirpal as though conferring an honour. alumnoled adj. Of a drinker who has acquired astringent alum-like judgement and applies it to minor wounds. Vacie went alumnoled and prescribed the bartender's salt for a paper cut. alumnused (/əˈlʌmnəsd/) adj. You have drunk enough to introduce yourself as a former student to anyone within lecturing distance. alumnxed (/ˈæl.əmˌɛksd/) adj. You are drunk and determined that every former student, regardless of identity, belongs to the reunion. Marlik was alumnxed and invited the barman to an institution he had never attended. alumohydrocalcited adj. Of a drinker: pale, complicated, and lying inert beside the bathroom tap. Kiontae was alumohydrocalcited beside the sink, pale beneath the bathroom's unforgiving light. alumoklyuchevskited adj. Of a drinker who has acquired a dark green complexion and a remarkable interest in sulphur. Jameison was alumoklyuchevskited, greenish in the face and discoursing on sulphur by the fruit bowl. alumopharmacosiderited adj. Describing a drinker who has turned white, arsenical, and unexpectedly interested in the first-aid cupboard. Nirali was alumopharmacosiderited, white-faced and searching the cabinet for something medicinal. alumosilicated adj. A drinker who has compressed the evening's argument into one small, negatively charged utterance. Sherrilee was alumosilicated and reduced the entire dispute to one emphatic, negative syllable.