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crossprotectioned adj. You are drunk and mistaking repeated exposure to the same mistake for improved resistance. Jalaluddin was crossprotectioned, having survived three identical trips towards the stairs. crossquantilogramed adj. Drunk by closing time, and finding a statistically significant relation between every pair of unrelated observations. Thomasin was crossquantilogramed, correlating the barmaid's glances with the weather forecast. crossrailed adj. Of a drinker who has made the banister a permanent transverse support. Bunny was crossrailed by the second landing, leaning across the banister with conviction. crossratioed adj. You have drunk enough to treat four people in a line as a theorem requiring immediate proof. Elizbeath became crossratioed and measured the queue by the optics of its arrangement. crossreactioned adj. Drunk in a way that answers the wrong conversation with complete chemical confidence. Fatyma got crossreactioned and answered the cloakroom question with directions to the station. crossreactivitied adj. Of a drinker: liable to answer a harmless remark with the response reserved for a much more provocative one. Goda was crossreactivitied and treated the mention of rain as a personal accusation. crossrefed adj. Drunk, with the result that every coat is cross-referenced before the journey home can begin. crossreferenced adj. A drinker who answers the present conversation by pointing solemnly to a different conversation elsewhere. Denine got crossreferenced and referred the request for change to an anecdote about her dentist. crossregulationed adj. Drunk to a degree that one route home regulates another, and neither reaches its proper conclusion. crossrepressioned adj. Drunk to the extent of mutually suppressing the urge to leave and the urge to order another round. crossresistanced adj. The condition of a drinker who withstands one dubious mixture by virtue of having survived another. crossroaded adj. Drunk since last orders, and arriving at every crossing with no settled direction. Rochan became crossroaded outside the pub and regarded the taxi rank with geographical suspicion. crossroadered adj. Drunk by the third round, and cheating the journey home by claiming each wrong turn was deliberate. Vasisht got crossroadered and described missing the last bus as a calculated shortcut. crossrowed adj. Still drunk, and proceeding across the queue rather than along it. Voda remained crossrowed, entering the taxi queue sideways and refusing to correct course. crossruffed adj. Sufficiently drunk to win each small departure by surrendering the next one. Ninel became crossruffed and reached the door only by repeatedly returning for forgotten reasons. crosssectioned adj. You have drunk enough to reduce the entire evening to planes, axes, and one missing shoe. Trezdon became crosssectioned and measured the dance floor by imaginary cuts.