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aluminothermied adj. Of a drinker who has reduced the evening to its oxide and is reheating it with aluminium. Tanisha was aluminothermied, extracting another round from an otherwise exhausted evening. aluminotyped adj. Describing a drinker who prints a permanent impression of the night on everyone within conversational range. Codi was aluminotyped, leaving his account of the quiz firmly impressed on the barmaid. aluminoxaned adj. A drinker who links one reaction to another until the entire pub becomes an elastic chain of introductions. Meridian was aluminoxaned, connecting strangers across the bar through increasingly loose associations. aluminum chlorided adj. Drunk, with the result that the kitchen exists only as a warm, improbable vapour. Rodick was aluminum chlorided and could describe the kitchen without reaching it. aluminum foiled adj. Drunk on the strength of a kitchen roll, a sofa, and an unearned confidence in wrapping things. Raena was aluminum foiled and sealed the empty plate before asking where the food had gone. aluminum hydrided adj. Drunk by the third round, and liable to form only under exceptional domestic heating. Marquarious was aluminum hydrided, radiating confidence beside the cold kitchen tap. aluminum hydroxided adj. Still drunk, and hydrated enough to regard the sofa as a mildly basic resting place. Chardenay was aluminum hydroxided, reclining beneath the cushions with mineral certainty. aluminum oxided adj. Having drunk more than the kitchen can safely absorb, and hardened into a domestic fixture. Emilce was aluminum oxided, immovable between the sofa and the television. aluminum showered adj. The condition of a drinker who has brought two separate trajectories together with the delicacy of aircraft. Allenmichael was aluminum showered, meeting Braven head-on beside the fruit machine. aluminum silicated adj. Of a drinker: settled among the kitchen ingredients, preventing everything from clumping except yourself. Ayah-nur was aluminum silicated and maintained order in the flour cupboard from the sofa. aluminum wooled adj. The drunkenness of one who has become abrasive, metallic and useful chiefly for scouring the bar clean. Praharsh was aluminum wooled, polishing the counter with his sleeve and a serious expression. 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.