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circle of the gorged adj. Slowed by drink to orbit one fixed point repeatedly, while insisting the route is exploratory. Daisy-beau became circle of the gorged and took twelve minutes to reach the same vacant stool. circle outed adj. Drunk and reducing every conversation, gradually and confidently, to a single departing point. Quendarious got circle outed and narrowed the party to one doorway, then forgot why. circle pitted (/ˈsɜɹkəl ˌpɪtd/) adj. Drunk to the point where ordinary walking becomes a circular contest with an imaginary centre. Oreva went circle pitted and completed several laps of the dance floor without meeting anyone. circle progressioned adj. Drunk enough to treat every change of subject as a harmonically necessary step upward. Arashdeep got circle progressioned and justified the taxi, kebab and tattoo as connected musical movements. circle runnered adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing an opening from a wall, but still attempting to score through it. Soffia became circle runnered and tried to receive a pass from a decorative pillar. circle sectored adj. Having drunk more than enough to divide the room between two radii and a remarkably confident arc. Tyreise became circle sectored, claiming the corner between the piano and the bar as a private province. circle segmented adj. Drunk beyond recognising a whole plan, proceeding instead through several equally confident arcs. Marie-lee got circle segmented and announced the evening in separate, non-connecting portions. circle sentenced adj. Drunk in a way that delivers a considered verdict on your own evening before anyone has heard evidence. Aureus became circle sentenced and imposed a lifetime ban on taxis he had never taken. circle sentencinged adj. Drunk, with the result that every decision is reviewed by a council of equally impaired elders. Brayley got circle sentencinged and convened the table to determine whether another round was traditional. circle skirted adj. Drunk to a degree that sends you smoothly outwards from every conversation without a visible seam. Tikki became circle skirted and filled the room while insisting she was standing quite still. circle timed adj. Drunk to the extent of converting a simple gathering into a scheduled exercise with no agreed purpose. Jontia got circle timed and allotted everyone ten minutes to explain the journey home. circle-A'd adj. Drunk on the strength of one symbol, and prepared to reorganise the establishment accordingly. Shulanda got circle-A'd and attempted to abolish the queue by popular declaration. circle-jerked adj. Drunk to a degree that turns mutual reassurance into a closed exchange from which nobody emerges improved. Bansi was circle-jerked, exchanging solemn agreement about the evening without reaching any conclusion. circled (/ˈsɜːkəld/) adj. Slowed by drink to a measured orbit of the kitchen, returning repeatedly to the abandoned cup of tea. Jarelis was circled, taking the long route round the kitchen to reach the same cold tea. circlejerked adj. A drinker so far gone that he mistakes a private agreement for a movement and recruits accordingly. Lindwood got circlejerked and proposed a committee to improve the pub's unanimous opinion. circlenessed adj. Drunk since last orders, and increasingly certain that every decision ought to return to its origin. Tyissha became circlenessed and revisited the first round as though it contained the answer.