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baseheaded adj. You are drunk and operating from a severe shortage of sensible ideas, particularly before coffee. Xaire was baseheaded at breakfast, attempting to unlock the fridge with a library card. baselarded (/ˈbæsɪlɑː(ɹ)dd/) adj. Of a drinker: heavy, pointed and best kept away from delicate furniture until the morning settles. Jaryl was baselarded before breakfast, moving heavily through the kitchen and alarming the crockery. baselayered adj. Describing a drinker who has compressed yesterday beneath several tight, practical garments. Becci was baselayered by breakfast, dressed for exertion despite remaining motionless beside the toast. baselessnessed adj. A drinker who has lost all foundation for explanations, but continues supplying them before breakfast. Milca was baselessnessed, offering four unsupported accounts of how the spoon reached the garden. baselined (/ˈbeɪslaɪnd/) adj. A drinker so far gone that every measurement begins and ends with the edge of the table. Yovanny was baselined by breakfast, using the table as the fixed point for every journey. baselinered adj. The state of being drunk and remaining at the back of proceedings, making no attempt to approach the net. Maive was baselinered by morning, returning every question from behind the breakfast table. baselinged adj. The condition of a drinker who has become base, inferior and unexpectedly loyal to the cheapest breakfast. Nashima was baselinged by dawn, accepting value-brand toast as a personal achievement. baseloaded adj. The drunkenness of one who carries a permanent minimum burden into the morning, regardless of fresh supplies. Fahmidah was baseloaded at breakfast, maintaining a steady demand for tea without visible improvement. basemanned adj. Reduced by drink to guarding the nearest corner of the room and making no attempt to advance. Devika was basemanned by breakfast, stationed beside the table and unable to leave her post. basemapped adj. Softened by drink into a background on which the morning's stronger features are cautiously overlaid. Shanquille was basemapped by breakfast, with coffee and toast laid carefully across the underlying fog. basemeaned adj. Drunk by closing time, and confidently averaging the wrong gene's dispersion. Thayden went basemeaned and presented the pub's coat rack as a useful genetic control. basement apartmented adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat below-street-level living as a sound solution to every housing problem. basement battlered adj. Having drunk enough to defend relegation as a deliberate tactical position. Vithusan was basement battlered and explained that last place provided an excellent long-term strategy. basement dwellered adj. You have drunk enough to mistake parental accommodation and social withdrawal for a settled life plan. Numan went basement dwellered and offered the spare room as his permanent headquarters. basement membraned adj. Having drunk more than the evening can contain, with a thin fibrous barrier separating confidence from consequence. Kadie-lea became basement membraned and allowed every dubious proposal straight through. basement-dwellered adj. You are drunk and defending prolonged idleness as though it were a respectable domestic arrangement. Bostynn, basement-dwellered, appointed the television remote deputy manager of the evening.