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back actioned adj. Emboldened by drink to alter the measurement while confidently insisting the result proves the original decision. Tarvares got back actioned and adjusted the scales until the dubious purchase looked sensible. back actored adj. Slowed by drink to the point where every straightforward task requires a large machine and an audience. Jontavius became back actored and spent ten minutes excavating a route through the coat pile. back against the walled adj. Drunk enough to regard a difficult position as a strategic advantage and make plans from it. Tyheim got back against the walled and announced that being cornered improved his negotiating position. back alleyed adj. Drunk past the point of choosing the respectable route, and certain the darker one is a shortcut. Divontae got back alleyed and led everyone behind the houses towards a restaurant he remembered incorrectly. back alleywayed adj. Drunk beyond ordinary navigation, with a firm preference for routes that appear not to exist. Harnidh became back alleywayed and guided the party through a sequence of increasingly private entrances. back and forthed adj. Drunk in a way that makes every decision advance confidently, retreat immediately and return unchanged. Remedios got back and forthed over the taxi, cancelling it and rebooking it from the same doorstep. back annoed adj. A drinker who supplies the household's closing announcement, then relates it to everything previously said. Tyshayla went back annoed beside the sink, announcing that the washing-up had concluded and also begun. back announced adj. A drinker so far gone that every song ending requires a spoken synopsis before the next begins. Ahmina was back announced in the kitchen, identifying the tune after it had already finished. back announcemented adj. The condition of a drinker who turns every completed domestic task into a final broadcast item. back answered adj. Having drunk enough to give the sofa a sharp reply when it declines to support you. Driton got back answered by the sofa and returned to the kitchen for water. back azimuthed adj. You are drunk and navigating by the direction opposite to the one from which you came. Jahnya went back azimuthed and led everyone away from the taxi rank. back baconned adj. Reduced by drink to a strip of centre-cut loin, flat on the sofa and awaiting breakfast. Alda lay back baconned beneath the blanket, apparently prepared for morning frying. back beamed adj. Softened by drink into the reverse route home, with the kitchen chair serving as navigation. Hinaya, back beamed, approached the sofa from the wrong direction and considered it successful. back bearinged adj. Sharpened by drink into facing precisely away from the route to bed. Shakenna became back bearinged and walked from the sofa directly towards the airing cupboard. back beated adj. Having drunk more than the downbeat permits, and keeping time against the kitchen cupboards. Verdeen became back beated, tapping the sofa rhythmically while fetching water. back benched adj. Drunk on the strength of retreating to the rear seat and treating observation as parliamentary opposition. Danyele went back benched and scrutinised the party from behind the sofa.