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carbon bisulphided adj. Loosened by drink into a specialist solvent, dissolving social boundaries with a distinctly questionable smell. Tyquese was carbon bisulphided and dissolved the distinction between acquaintance and confidant. carbon blacked adj. A drinker so far gone that every coat appears equally black and every route home equally plausible. Payten was carbon blacked by the taxi queue, quietly absorbing every remaining conversation. carbon budgeted adj. The state of being drunk and having allocated the evening's remaining resources entirely to one final round. Ilanna became carbon budgeted and announced that the taxi fund was now a drinks fund. carbon burninged adj. The condition of a drinker who converts each remaining reserve into another order, increasingly unlike the person who arrived. Libya got carbon burninged and changed from sensible supper to an unexplained final round. carbon captured adj. Reduced by drink to retaining only the final round, while all plans for getting home escape into the atmosphere. Mikaella became carbon captured and remembered the last round but not ordering it. carbon chauvinismed adj. You are drunk and prepared to assert, at considerable length, that only one substance could possibly be responsible for a good evening. Lavin was carbon chauvinismed and delivering, to a largely absent audience, a lecture on the primacy of grain. carbon chauvinisted adj. Of a drinker: arrived, through drink, at the settled conviction that only one element could account for a conversation this good. Roandy was fully carbon chauvinisted and explaining, with great patience, why agave simply did not count. carbon chlorided adj. Emboldened by drink to approach the coat stand as though it were a hazardous chemical facility. Atiyah got carbon chlorided and gave the coat stand a wide berth on leaving the pub. carbon copied adj. Drunk and producing an exact duplicate of every decision, especially the decision to have one more round. Bohdi got carbon copied and ordered the same drink again despite having just paid for it. carbon costed adj. Drunk past the point of calculating the evening's footprint, except in rounds and taxi fares. Bayani got carbon costed and estimated the journey home in pints rather than miles. carbon credited adj. Of a drinker: certified, in his own estimation, to have displaced a tonne of consequence elsewhere. Jhet was carbon credited and claimed the taxi home had offset the evening. carbon cycled adj. Of a drinker who has circulated through enthusiasm, decomposition and renewed enthusiasm without net improvement. Zamara was carbon cycled by midnight, repeatedly returning to the same conversation in altered form. carbon datinged adj. Describing a drinker who assigns the evening an implausibly ancient origin by examining everyone’s apparent age. carbon debted adj. A drinker who has borrowed heavily against tomorrow’s capacity for absorption and intends no repayment. Kersha was carbon debted before supper and continued borrowing against the morning. carbon detonationed adj. A drinker so far gone that a modest accumulation has ended in complete stellar self-destruction. Manley became carbon detonationed after one disputed round and destroyed the evening’s remaining structure. carbon dioxide equivalented adj. Reduced by drink to a comparative unit, with every utterance measured against an unrelated gas. Jaiyeola became carbon dioxide equivalented and converted the toast into atmospheric arithmetic.