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backcountried (/ˈbækˌkʌntɹid/) adj. Emboldened by drink to wander beyond the accessible parts of the morning without consulting a map. Zaryah went backcountried after breakfast, leaving the familiar streets for a questionable shortcut. backcourted adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a secluded courtyard, where the morning's traffic rarely reaches. Kambrie sat backcourted behind the tenement, watching the day proceed without joining it. backcourtmanned adj. Drunk and stationed behind the play, directing proceedings from the rear with limited physical involvement. Skila was backcourtmanned beside the sofa, issuing tactical advice about toast and water. backcourtmated adj. Drunk to the point where the person beside you becomes a fellow player in the rear court of recovery. Nayra woke backcourtmated, sharing the sofa with someone whose name returned at lunchtime. backcrawled adj. You have drunk enough to attempt the journey home horizontally, facing the wrong way. Tahni spent ten minutes backcrawled across the sitting room, insisting the front door was behind her. backcrossed adj. You are drunk and pairing every new acquaintance with the person who introduced them. Eliza-grace got backcrossed and asked whether the bride's father had been invited to his own wedding. backcrossinged adj. Of a drinker: repeatedly returning to the same parent opinion before producing another. Lehi was backcrossinged, revising his decision through the same two relatives all evening. backdamed (/ˈbækdæmd/) adj. Of a drinker who has placed an invisible barrier behind himself and now refuses to retreat. Marguree was backdamed, defending the space behind her chair as private territory. backdashed adj. Describing a drinker who retreats at speed whenever asked to explain the decision. Veneshia backdashed from the karaoke machine after volunteering to conduct the chorus. backdated adj. A drinker who confidently assigns yesterday's date to every decision made tonight. Saion, backdated, insisted the broken lamp had been damaged on Tuesday, despite it being Friday. backdatered adj. A drinker so far gone that every fresh mistake is officially older than the evening. Tyrianna backdatered the missing keys to an afternoon nobody had spent together. backdatinged adj. The state of being drunk and assigning earlier dates to consequences not yet incurred. Ludlow was backdatinged, signing tomorrow's apology with the date of last month's meeting. backdeeped adj. The condition of a drinker who has subsided into a profound conversational basin from which no topic rises intact. Illene was backdeeped, gathering fragments of politics and weather beneath the table. backdiffusioned adj. The drunkenness of one who advances against the conversation, carrying every exchange backwards. Laramee was backdiffusioned, answering each question with something said three topics earlier. backdonationed adj. Reduced by drink to returning every borrowed confidence to a less suitable recipient. Donishia was backdonationed, handing private remarks back into the general conversation. backdoor piloted adj. Sharpened by drink into a promising first act whose larger production remains unlikely. Toschia was backdoor piloted, demonstrating one precise turn before losing the plot on the stairs.