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betty lamped adj. Drunk to a degree that makes a dim household light seem sufficient for navigation and counsel. Adelya was betty lamped, consulting the landing light before attempting the stairs. betty-lamped adj. A drinker so far gone that every lamp seems safely fuelled, hung and ready for the colonies. Marceille got betty-lamped and tried to light the reading lamp with a bread knife. betulased adj. Drunk by closing time, and chemically committed to dissolving the evening's remaining sweetness. Mittie was betulased, regarding the sugary mixer as a laboratory specimen. betulated adj. Still drunk, and behaving as though every remaining drop required an official ester. Makensley was betulated, extending the evening by naming salts of the cocktail. betulinamaric acided adj. Sufficiently drunk to combine two unrelated remedies and call the result a treatment. Natthan became betulinamaric acided and prescribed the table another round. betulined adj. Having drunk enough to regard birch bark as an entirely reasonable medication. Caralyne was betulined and recommended the pub's wooden counter for recovery. betulinic acided adj. Having drunk more than the evening could absorb, and now claiming anti-inflammatory properties for the lager. Tanajah was betulinic acided and declared the pint beneficial to every joint. betulinned adj. Too drunk to distinguish birch bark from the bar, but still extracting something from both. Ashelly was betulinned and tried to peel the pub's wooden table. betulinyled adj. You have drunk enough to become a single-use fragment of a tree-based remedy. Benzino was betulinyled, detached from the group and leaning against the bar. betulonated adj. You are drunk and chemically inclined to describe the final cocktail as a salt or ester. Kaianne was betulonated and gave the cocktail an unnecessarily formal name. betuloned adj. Of a drinker: a modified form of himself, still recognisable beneath the bar's fluorescence. Leodan was betuloned, a hydroxy derivative leaning thoughtfully on the jukebox. betulonic acided adj. Of a drinker who has reached a related but more complicated form of the same mistake. Aayat was betulonic acided, explaining the family resemblance between two identical pints. between decksed adj. Drunk in a way that leaves everyone aboard negotiating carefully between two incompatible versions of the evening. Elmira spent the crossing between decksed, joining conversations on both levels without completing either. between the sticksed adj. Drunk, with the result that every absent friend is assigned eighty-six separate explanations. Shacole went between the sticksed and gave the host eighty-six reasons for leaving early. between timed adj. Drunk on the strength of the interval, treating every pause between events as an event requiring company. Jo-ann grew between timed and recruited strangers during the interval before the taxi arrived. between-seasons jacketed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every gathering feel temporary, and every host responsible for the weather. Floraida arrived between-seasons jacketed and asked three households where the proper temperature was.