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bureau de changed (/ˈbjʊəɹ.əʊ.dəˌʃɒ̃ʒd/) adj. Having drunk more than the cashpoint allows, and attempting to exchange every remaining coin for foreign-looking small change. Rayvone was bureau de changed, offering the barman coins from three imaginary currencies. bureau platted adj. Of a drinker: flat at the table, writing elaborate notes which no sober person commissioned. Dorrance was bureau platted, covering the table with minutes of a meeting that never occurred. bureau-ocracied adj. Of a drinker who has replaced conversation with forms, committees and a lengthy approval process for another round. Zaravion was bureau-ocracied, requiring three signatures before anyone could order chips. bureaucracied (/bjʊəˈɹɒkɹəsid/) adj. Describing a drinker who administers the pub by tiers, procedures and mysteriously delayed decisions. Brucha was bureaucracied, issuing numbered instructions for sharing the last packet of crisps. bureaucrated (/ˈbjʊəɹəkɹætd/) adj. The state of being drunk and officiating over minor pub matters with an official air. bureaucratesed adj. Having drunk enough to explain a missed round in jargon no ordinary person can understand. Chrystalla became bureaucratesed and described the empty glass as a temporary hospitality deficit. bureaucratessed adj. Reduced by drink to an official behind the bar, empowered chiefly to stamp, defer and request another round. Kedron was bureaucratessed, stamping beer mats and deferring every question until closing. bureaucratic centralismed adj. Drunk by the third round, and issuing decrees to the crisps while awaiting implementation. Teniya became bureaucratic centralismed and required the crisps to be redistributed by department. bureaucratic inertiaed adj. Drunk by closing time, and continuing the evening's established procedures despite their evident abandonment. Alenia remained bureaucratic inertiaed, ordering the customary final round after everyone had put on coats. bureaucratied adj. A drinker who turns a straightforward order into a chain of authorisations and countersignatures. Gerick was bureaucratied, seeking approval from the whole table before asking for bitter. bureaucratisationed adj. Having drunk enough to convert the table into a bureaucracy, with the ashtray as its permanent secretary. Preethi became bureaucratisationed and gave the ashtray responsibility for late-night correspondence. bureaucratismed adj. Still drunk, and treating a request for the salt as a matter requiring three forms. Maia was bureaucratismed enough to request the salt through the proper channel. bureaucratisted adj. Too drunk to answer a simple question without referring it upwards. Jania became bureaucratisted and referred Tasheba's question about chips to the senior table. bureaucratitised adj. Sufficiently drunk to turn the acquisition of a kebab into an ordeal of red tape. Claren got bureaucratitised and demanded two signatures before accepting the kebab. bureaucratizationed adj. Having drunk more than the occasion required, and turning a loose gathering into an office. Raizo grew bureaucratizationed and assigned each guest a numbered seat. bureaucratspeaked adj. You have drunk enough to describe a missed bus as an unforeseen logistical event. Darsy got bureaucratspeaked and called the missing taxi a transport-resource discrepancy.