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cross-poled adj. You have drunk enough to lean horizontally between two friends and call it transport. Kseniya was cross-poled between two companions, making steady progress towards the taxi rank. cross-pollinationed adj. You are drunk and transferring every table's plans, gossip, and remaining snacks to the next. Isamari was cross-pollinationed, carrying one table's taxi arrangement into another table's argument. cross-polytoped adj. Of a drinker who has reached every corner of the pub without travelling in a straight line. Ejaz was cross-polytoped, occupying each corner before finally locating the exit. cross-posted adj. Sufficiently drunk to send each sentence simultaneously to several unrelated conversations. cross-price elasticity of demanded adj. A drinker who changes their choice of round whenever the price of another drink changes. cross-progressed adj. The state of being drunk and carrying the same unfinished evening from pub to taxi to doorstep. Makayla was cross-progressed, resuming the argument at each stage of the journey home. cross-progressioned adj. The condition of a drinker who transfers the evening's progress from one means of transport to another. Furlon was cross-progressioned, continuing the bar tab mentally throughout the bus journey. cross-purposed adj. Drunk since last orders, and pursuing an entirely different object from the one under discussion. Shanasha got cross-purposed and answered the licensing question with a proposal for marriage. cross-quantilogramed adj. Drunk by the third round, and establishing the dependence between two differently timed degrees of confidence. Meenakshi became cross-quantilogramed and plotted the pub's moods against its closing notices. cross-quartersed adj. Still drunk, and arranged in four petalled compartments around an absent centre. Chquita remained cross-quartersed, standing four-square beneath the pub's ornamental window. cross-questioned adj. Too drunk to answer one inquiry without producing three more, each less admissible than the last. cross-questioninged adj. Sufficiently drunk to conduct a cross-examination of anyone who has retained their original account. cross-race effected adj. Having drunk enough to recognise every stranger as familiar, whilst identifying one's companions by increasingly doubtful criteria. Asilah became cross-race effected and addressed the unfamiliar doorman as her former geography teacher. cross-ratioed adj. Having drunk more than four points of reference can profitably be expected to organise. Ilyass got cross-ratioed and assigned a projective value to each person waiting for the lavatory. cross-reactioned adj. Describing a drinker who responds to one harmless movement as though another, similar one had occurred. Kennard was cross-reactioned, ducking whenever anyone merely mentioned the stairs. cross-reactivitied adj. You are drunk and responding to one stimulus as though it belonged to an entirely different category.