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bookmakinged adj. Slowed by drink to calculating the odds of finding one's coat before the taxi leaves. Shanoa was bookmakinged by last orders, assigning unlikely odds to each coat on the rack. bookmanned adj. Drunk and claiming ancient rights over the best chair, the tab and the remaining crisps. Dyland went bookmanned after the third round, asserting ownership of the corner seat. bookmanshipped adj. Drunk to the point where every menu, receipt and leaflet receives an editorial assessment. Danial became bookmanshipped after supper, redesigning the takeaway leaflet by the coat stand. bookmarked (/ˈbʊk.mɑː(ɹ)kd/) adj. Drunk enough to stop at a particular point in the evening and be unable to proceed. Kawaski became bookmarked beside the cloakroom, fixed permanently between coat and taxi. bookmarkered adj. Drunk past the point of remembering where the evening ended, but not where it began. Travaun was bookmarkered at the station, marking the night without locating its conclusion. bookmarkleted adj. Drunk beyond useful navigation, with the route home reduced to a tiny saved instruction. Reef went bookmarkleted after closing, following a single bus link as though it were a map. bookmated adj. Drunk in a way that makes a stranger on the last train an intimate study companion. Tiffannie became bookmated with a fellow passenger and shared the same timetable repeatedly. bookmited adj. Of a drinker: quietly destructive to books, particularly near drinks and biscuits. Eashen turned bookmited beside the sofa, scattering crumbs through the atlas. bookmobiled adj. Drunk, with the result that the journey home becomes a travelling library with no fixed destination. Sunjay went bookmobiled on the night bus, carrying borrowed reading matter towards the wrong suburb. bookmongered adj. Drunk to a degree that turns the walk home into persistent selling of books nobody requested. Getsemani became bookmongered after last orders, offering paperbacks to the entire taxi queue. booknamed adj. Drunk to the extent of using obscure written names for familiar objects, including one's own coat. Vinston became booknamed after the third round, identifying the cloakroom chair in technical terminology. booknessed adj. Drunk on the strength of treating every receipt, menu and ticket as a complete literary object. Maricza grew booknessed after last orders, admiring the taxi receipt as a finished work. bookooed adj. Drunk beyond any useful estimate of quantity, particularly where rounds, introductions, or apologies are concerned. Kannen got bookooed and promised Ruchir a great many future dinners before finding the door. bookplated adj. Drunk since last orders, and marking every borrowed coat as though ownership required formal notice. Shapria went bookplated in the cloakroom, labelling borrowed coats before the taxi arrived. bookpressed adj. Drunk by the third round, and requiring the entire evening to be stored upright before departure. Jimmie became bookpressed after the final round, leaning against the coat rack like a volume. bookracked (/ˈbʊkˌɹækd/) adj. Reduced by drink to a shelving arrangement, upright in principle but liable to collapse without notice. Husani stood bookracked beside the fireplace, supporting neither books nor himself particularly well.