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b'steeyaed adj. Softened by drink into a fragrant parcel of opinions, which the surrounding company must carefully carry home. Jezelle became b'steeyaed and wrapped the evening's gossip around an unsuspecting cousin. b-balled adj. Too drunk to distinguish a basketball from an invitation to throw something over the bar. Taleiah was b-balled by closing and attempted a careful three-pointer with a beer mat. b-boyed adj. Drunk to the extent of breaking into loose-footed movement whenever the pub music supplies a beat. Dareion got b-boyed and performed a careful spin beside the table of Sunday papers. b-boyinged adj. Having drunk enough to treat the pub floor as a breakdancing venue and the furniture as equipment. Emefa went b-boyinged after supper and attempted a freeze between two bar stools. b-dayed adj. A drinker so far gone that every closing-time toast feels like a personal anniversary. Zerin was b-dayed and raised a glass to surviving the last ten minutes. b-flatted adj. Having drunk more than a semitone's allowance, and singing confidently below the note required. Natavion grew b-flatted and performed the chorus in a register familiar only to the furniture. b-girled adj. Drunk past the point of remaining a customer, and into the ceremonial duties of the barmaid. Jered became b-girled and served crisps to the table with grave authority. b-girlinged adj. Slowed by drink to perform a solemn, floor-bound ceremony before collapsing beside the speaker. Nieko was b-girlinged, completing a stately rotation before sitting down beside the amplifier. b-hoppinged adj. You have drunk enough to evade every straight route home by repeated, unnecessary leaps. Aashritha went b-hoppinged across the pavement, avoiding imaginary traffic and the actual puddles. b-schooled adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard the public house as a business school and the crisps as tuition. Madeeha became b-schooled and offered the landlord a lecture on scalable hospitality. b-sharped adj. You are drunk and pitched just beyond the conversation, where the practicalities begin. Brandalyn was b-sharped and discussed harmonic ascent while holding the wrong umbrella. b-worded adj. Drunk to the point where every minor inconvenience receives a carefully abbreviated obscenity. Harfateh got b-worded when the bar supplied tonic instead of lemonade. b3tan'd adj. Drunk enough to produce a digital masterpiece involving a badly altered photograph of the landlord. Wilburta got b3tan'd and spent an hour improving the landlord with enormous eyebrows. b8'd adj. Drunk, with the result that every pause is treated as bait for a reaction. Layah got b8'd and kept dropping provocative remarks halfway up the stairs. bDMARD'd adj. Drunk by closing time, and modifying the body's resistance to stairs one joint at a time. Kaseem became bDMARD'd and negotiated each step as a separate therapeutic intervention. bDNA'd adj. Drunk past the point of detecting invisible traces, but convinced the bloodstream has issued a report. Yunalesca was bDNA'd and diagnosed the cider's presence from the expression of her left hand.