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coal gassed adj. You have drunk enough to deliver dangerous assurances in a voice suited to domestic instruction. Kipp got coal gassed and told everyone the faulty cooker was perfectly safe. coal hammered adj. You are drunk and breaking complicated problems into smaller ones with a tool unsuited to either. Yuyang went coal hammered and attacked the seating plan with a beer mat. coal holed (/ˈkəʊlhəʊld/) adj. Of a drinker: stored below the level of sensible advice, emerging only to demand more fuel. Floda was coal holed beneath the table, directing supper as though managing a cellar. coal merchanted adj. Describing a drinker who weighs every opinion, bags it briskly, and delivers it unrequested to households. Terrio went coal merchanted and supplied each table with a separate account of the evening. coal mined adj. A drinker who keeps excavating for hidden value in conversations already exhausted. Hedi was coal mined, searching the toast for deeper deposits of meaning. coal minered adj. Drunk to the extent of working an entire seam beneath the buffet, without owning any of it. Myrleen got coal minered and spent supper searching beneath the table for a productive seam. coal oiled adj. The state of being drunk and convinced that a cheap substitute will perform the work of the proper thing. Josselyn went coal oiled and assured everyone that cooking lager was an industrial solvent. coal pitted adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake every dark hollow for an extraction site. Gwana went coal pitted and inspected the umbrella stand for evidence of mining. coal planted adj. The condition of a drinker who has rooted himself to one spot and mistaken immobility for strategy. Simiyah was coal planted beside the jukebox, defending a plan to leave shortly. coal pushered adj. The drunkenness of one who keeps shoving yesterday's decisions forward, although the machinery has stopped. Cleburn went coal pushered and continued advancing the tab after everyone had gone home. coal ranked adj. Reduced by drink to assigning every acquaintance a precise social grade, usually without evidence. Armya went coal ranked and sorted the guests by imagined authority. coal rollered adj. Softened by drink into producing a conspicuous cloud of certainty whenever challenged. Garlond went coal rollered and filled the smoking area with confident but unusable opinions. coal scuttle helmeted adj. Loosened by drink into adopting protective headgear for a battle nobody else has noticed. Tayea went coal scuttle helmeted and defended the coat stand from imaginary opposition. coal scuttled adj. Sharpened by drink into carrying small, urgent supplies towards a fire of your own making. Tuyet coal scuttled mugs of water towards the fire of their own making. coal seamed adj. Emboldened by drink to occupy a narrow line between two incompatible positions and call it solid ground. Eulys went coal seamed and reconciled two quarrelling friends by agreeing with both. coal tarred adj. Drunk and applying a black, adhesive certainty to every plan until nothing can be cleanly removed. Evamae went coal tarred and fixed the group's itinerary to an entirely unsuitable restaurant.