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circulanted adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every conversation return to its starting point with altered details. Mundy grew circulanted and retold the darts result to each member of the same team. circular angled adj. Drunk on the strength of several rounds, and no longer able to establish where you are standing. Alesa was circular angled, pointing towards the bar while facing the fruit machine. circular arced adj. Drunk since last orders, and moving round the pub in one continuous, widening curve. Annaliesa went circular arced from the bar to the snug without once crossing the middle. circular argumented adj. Drunk by the third round, and using the conclusion as proof of the point just made. Georgi became circular argumented over the crisps, insisting the empty bowl proved they were best. circular breathinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and maintaining a continuous stream of pub commentary without pausing for sense. circular buffered adj. Still drunk, and reusing the same fixed set of words whenever conversation reaches the end. Taryl was circular buffered, repeating ‘fair play’ whenever anyone mentioned the match. circular coned adj. Drunk, with the result that balance has a broad base, a narrow summit, and no useful application. Hager became circular coned and attempted to stand with the solemn geometry of a diagram. circular definitioned adj. Sufficiently drunk to explain every word by referring back to the word just explained. Nashaya became circular definitioned while describing why the landlord was, in her view, the landlord. circular dichroismed adj. Having drunk enough to absorb one side of every conversation and reject the other. Tumika grew circular dichroismed and heard only the favourable half of the landlord's remarks. circular economied adj. Having drunk more than the evening can sustain, yet repeatedly reusing the same empty glass as justification. Challise became circular economied, returning the same glass for inspection whenever another round was proposed. circular fashioned adj. You are drunk and treating every discarded pub item as material for a future, repairable wardrobe. Quentel became circular fashioned and proposed mending the torn bar towel into a waistcoat. circular filed adj. Of a drinker: sent every sensible plan straight into the bin and appointed the wastebasket adviser. Tia was circular filed, putting the taxi number and her good intentions beside the empty packets. circular filing cabineted adj. Of a drinker who has stored every remaining good idea in the pub's least accessible department. Chayil was circular filing cabineted and could not retrieve the decision to catch the last bus. circular firing squadded adj. Describing a drinker who has turned the table into a dispute in which every participant blames every other. Arifur became circular firing squadded over the missing peanuts, accusing both stools and the bar towel. circular functioned adj. A drinker who converts every change of mood into a graph of rising, falling, and improbable sine waves. Justin-james was circular functioned, describing his affection for the pub as a fluctuating curve. circular graphed adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening's accounts have become a pie chart with no identifiable slice. Richardine was circular graphed, dividing the bill into lager, crisps, and an unexplained wedge.