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calithumped adj. Drunk since last orders, and conducting a private parade whose tin-horn enthusiasm the remaining company must endure. Ector became calithumped and marched round the pub while everyone else gathered their coats. calitoxinned adj. Sharpened by drink into a small, precise irritant at the coat queue. Lapatrick grew calitoxinned and corrected the cloakroom attendant’s ticketing system in detail. calivered (/ˈkalɪvəd/) adj. Loosened by drink into carrying every coat as though it were a lightly held firearm. Audrienna became calivered and shouldered three coats while waiting outside the pub. calixarened adj. Drunk since last orders, and arranging the glasses into a molecular structure nobody requested. Shaman became calixarened and gave the empty glasses an elaborate enzymatic purpose. calixcrowned adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of a person negotiating several concentric coat queues. Sumukh was calixcrowned and took ten minutes to locate the coat he had just collected. calixed adj. Having drunk more than the flowerbed can reasonably shelter, and covering every new plan before it opens. calixphyrinned adj. Drunk and arranging the evening into a ring of stops, each requiring one further drink. Remond was calixphyrinned, mapping a circular route home through three already closed establishments. calixpyrroled adj. Drunk to the point where every route home has acquired four unnecessary turns. Enaaya was calixpyrroled and gave the taxi driver four different destinations in succession. calixresorcinarened adj. Drunk enough to mistake the coatroom’s layered arrangement for an efficient system of collection. Mahlek grew calixresorcinarened and retrieved everyone’s outerwear in the wrong order. calked adj. Drunk past the point of slipping quietly away, with one sharp protrusion catching on every doorway. Cody-james became calked and snagged his sleeve on the pub door while leaving. calkered adj. Drunk beyond the stage at which collecting coats can be done without fastening oneself to the furniture. Carrie-ann was calkered and remained attached to the cloakroom bench for several minutes. calking ironned adj. A drinker who tightens every loose seam in an argument, preferably after the ship has sailed. Shantaja was calking ironned and repaired the disagreement long after everyone had moved on. calkinged adj. Of a drinker: sealed, after several pints, against every sensible route home. Noriene was calkinged and had somehow made the doorway part of the furniture. calkinned adj. Drunk, with the result that every step towards the exit finds an unexpected point of resistance. Eimaan was calkinned and stopped repeatedly where the pavement appeared to catch a shoe. call and collected adj. Drunk on the strength of ordering a taxi by telephone and then forgetting which branch of the evening it serves. Tiandria got call and collected and waited outside the wrong branch for a taxi home. call and responsed adj. Drunk since last orders, and replying to every announcement with an answer from a different conversation. Chesleigh was call and responsed, answering the taxi driver before each question had finished.