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Big Bangered adj. Drunk to the point where an ordinary beginning has acquired unnecessarily cosmic significance. Jaskarn was Big Bangered and described the opening of the crisps as an event of universal consequence. Big Bend patchnose snaked adj. Drunk, with the result that progress proceeds in a long, low curve rather than a line. Decorius went Big Bend patchnose snaked from the bar to the exit. Big Blue 82'd adj. You are drunk and flattening every conversation until only a landing zone remains. Kasadie went Big Blue 82'd and left the dinner table with nobody's anecdote intact. Big Businessed adj. Reduced by drink to a corporate scale, with every small stumble managed as though it required a board meeting. Shiquana became Big Businessed and commissioned Annajoy to oversee the descent. Big Danced adj. Of a drinker: treating every gathering as the final, while making the company endure the encore. Somayah got Big Danced and delivered farewell speeches before pudding. Big Drummed adj. A drinker who turns the gathering into a Caribbean festival, whether the neighbours consent or not. Cleona became Big Drummed and supplied percussion on every available surface. Big Dumb Objected adj. The condition of a drinker who has become large, mysterious and impossible for the company to interpret. Slayter was Big Dumb Objected, silently radiating importance beside the crisps. Big Footed adj. Drunk, with the result that each step becomes conspicuous, broad and somebody else's problem. Ljay went Big Footed and displaced three chairs while reaching for his coat. Big Governmented adj. Sufficiently drunk to require several departments, substantial spending and regulation before departure. Brevon became Big Governmented and established a committee for locating the missing coats. Big H'd adj. Reduced by drink to issuing grand, ominous invitations which nobody else wishes to accept. Menal became Big H'd and offered the entire party a mysterious solution to the evening. Big Historied adj. Drunk, with the result that the evening is explained from the Big Bang onwards. Airah gave the empty crisp bowl a cosmological history beginning with the formation of matter. Big Jim and the twinsed adj. Softened by drink into discussing private anatomy with the confidence of a man addressing close acquaintances. Jamarco went Big Jim and the twinsed, and the table discovered more than it requested. Big Labored adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard every disagreement as a dispute between organised economic forces. Ibhan attributed the missing chips to a coordinated struggle between management and appetite. Big Laboured adj. Having drunk enough to treat the queue at the bar as a unionised instrument of historical change. Coedy explained the slow service as an inevitable confrontation between labour and capital. Big Lied adj. Of a drinker who has become convinced that the grandeur of a falsehood guarantees its truth. Chrystene announced that the landlord had knighted her, with such force that nobody challenged the claim. Big Mac sauced adj. Drunk to a degree that every conversation requires an additional layer, applied unevenly. Sharnese was Big Mac sauced and dressed each explanation before serving it.