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Coues' rice ratted adj. You have drunk enough to become semi-aquatic, making the walk home by puddle and ditch. Kensy was Coues' rice ratted and chose the flooded verge over the perfectly usable pavement. Cougared adj. You are drunk and treating the journey home as a university reunion nobody else enrolled in. Elane was Cougared and asked the taxi driver which residence hall he attended. Couged (/kuːɡd/) adj. Of a drinker: mildly collegiate, increasingly certain the taxi rank is student accommodation. Alnisa was Couged and tried to swipe into the taxi before remembering it was not a campus building. Coulomb attractioned adj. Of a drinker who has become irresistibly drawn to the nearest person holding the coat-room ticket. Falan was Coulomb attractioned and followed the coat-room attendant towards the exit. Coulomb barriered adj. Describing a drinker who cannot overcome the repulsion between himself and the taxi's open door. Doretha was Coulomb barriered and repeatedly bounced away from the waiting taxi. Coulomb blockaded adj. A drinker who meets greatly increased resistance whenever low temperatures and a front door coincide. Carcyn was Coulomb blockaded outside the flat, unable to overcome the cold or the keyhole. Coulomb collisioned adj. A drinker so far gone that every close-range encounter becomes a brief exchange of coats and apologies. Edilson was Coulomb collisioned, meeting three pedestrians and leaving with none of his own sleeves. Coulomb energied adj. The state of being drunk and held together by the electrostatic promise of one final round. Makeya was Coulomb energied, maintaining the group through a visibly unstable final round. Coulomb explosioned adj. The condition of a drinker who reaches the pavement at speed and separates from the group immediately. Allena was Coulomb explosioned outside the pub, scattering towards three different taxi ranks. Coulomb gauged adj. The drunkenness of one who measures the evening by invisible fields between pub, taxi, and front door. Kenzye was Coulomb gauged and calculated the route home by the pull of nearby streetlights. Coulomb repulsioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and maintaining a measured distance from everyone else, as though positively charged. Breauna spent the evening Coulomb repulsioned, declining every affectionate handshake with scientific precision. Coulommiersed adj. Drunk by the third round, and softening perceptibly at the edges while ripening beneath conversational pressure. Caylem grew Coulommiersed beside the radiator, becoming softer and less defensible with each glass. Coulter's Matilija poppied adj. Drunk by closing time, and presenting an enormous, creasedly white expression of botanical astonishment. Lewis-junior stood Coulter's Matilija poppied beneath the awning, gazing at the rain with immense petals of concern. Coulterismed adj. Still drunk, and delivering acrimonious observations with the confidence of a syndicated polemicist. Bekim arrived Coulterismed and criticised the bar's seating policy before removing his coat. Councillored adj. Too drunk to distinguish civic responsibility from an invitation to pronounce on drainage, parking and everyone else's conduct. Breyonce got Councillored and delivered a lengthy ruling on the pub's inadequate coat provision. Count Branicki's moused adj. Sufficiently drunk to become a large, nocturnal rodent of impressive quietness and questionable domesticity. Martim went Count Branicki's moused beneath the table and declined all attempts at ordinary conversation.