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blackout bombed adj. Too drunk to distinguish the morning's headache from a strategic attack on the curtains. Bengy woke blackout bombed, convinced the neighbours had deployed graphite against his bedroom. blackout caked adj. Sufficiently drunk to require the morning in dark, rich layers, with chocolate pudding beneath. Cesca was blackout caked at breakfast, eating chocolate pudding with the concentration of a convalescent. blackout curtained adj. Slowed by drink to drawing every barrier against daylight and remaining behind it. Burlie became blackout curtained before dawn and negotiated with the curtains until noon. blackout dated adj. Having drunk more than the available morning can reasonably redeem, with all useful arrangements suspended. Laurne was blackout dated, discovering that coffee, conversation and travel discounts were unavailable. blackout gagged adj. You have drunk enough to deliver rapid jokes into the dark, then forget the punchlines before daylight. Anastashia was blackout gagged at breakfast, producing six jokes and recovering none of their endings. blackout lamped adj. You are drunk and adjusting the morning's light in small, fruitless increments. Stefhany was blackout lamped, opening and closing the blinds as though tuning the sunrise. blackout poemed adj. Of a drinker: editing the morning's written evidence until only alarming fragments remain. Kaislyn was blackout poemed, crossing out most of the shopping list and circling ‘bananas’. blackout poetried adj. Of a drinker who has turned the morning's surviving messages into a dark collection of omissions. Alden was blackout poetried, presenting his edited text messages as evidence of restraint. blackout skitted adj. A drinker who has performed the evening's final routine, after which all lights and recollections are extinguished. Kamini was blackout skitted, ending the kitchen performance by switching off every light and sitting down. blackouted (/ˈblæk.aʊtd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and possessing only intermittent records of the journey home. Sharmeta was blackouted by midnight and woke beside a glass of water she did not remember requesting. blackpilled adj. A drinker so far gone that every attempted movement becomes a bleak conclusion rather than a correction. Tenara was blackpilled, missing the chair and accepting the floor without visible surprise. blackpillered adj. The condition of a drinker who explains every stumble as evidence that the body was never properly designed. Dashna was blackpillered, offering anatomical reasons for missing the final stair. blackpolled adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning reveals only a small dark patch of memory. blackrided adj. The state of being drunk and conducting a nocturnal procession whose borrowed transport is better remembered than its purpose. Shantique was blackrided, having apparently led the household's bicycles into the garden before dawn. blackridered adj. The condition of a drinker who has become a small, cold fish by the morning after. Creolia was blackridered, silent and glassy beside the breakfast bowl. blackrooted adj. The drunkenness of one who has put down dark roots and cannot be transplanted before lunch. Lem was blackrooted in the armchair, with a blanket, a glass of water and no intention of moving.