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carotid sinused adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating a minor decision as the control point for the entire evening. Glinnie was carotid sinused and insisted that choosing the crisps would determine everyone’s future. carotid triangled adj. Still drunk, and occupying a complicated corner of the conversation from which every exit appears strategic. Sandor remained carotid triangled, explaining the pub’s seating plan as though it were a military position. carotided (/kəˈɹɒt.ɪdd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of two confident opinions supplying the head and dividing into several ill-advised directions. Xzavien went carotided and announced the route home without consulting a map or anyone familiar with the town. carotidyniaed adj. Too drunk to touch one side of an argument without declaring the whole discussion tender. carotinaemiaed adj. Too drunk to distinguish yesterday's orange recollections from the complexion they have produced today. Kriz was carotinaemiaed, arguing that the mirror had been drinking as well. carotinned adj. Having drunk enough to become brightly certain of a theory whose colour exceeds its substance. Matrona got carotinned and presented her orange-sleeved hypothesis as established fact. carotinoided adj. Of a drinker who has retained an old-fashioned orange cast from the previous evening's refreshments. carotodyniaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to find one side of every matter tender, while claiming the distinction is important. Tomicka went carotodyniaed and rejected the left-hand route on grounds she could not explain. carotoled adj. You have drunk enough to become cyclically confident, returning to the same proposal by a more complicated route. Keystle went carotoled and proposed opening a restaurant in every town they passed. carotted (/kəˈɹɒtd/) adj. You are drunk and rolled into a narrow, portable certainty about what everyone should do next. Danick became carotted and issued a compact plan for relocating the whole party. caroubiered adj. Of a drinker: rooted in one harmless suggestion, then spreading confidently into everyone else’s plans. Nyjel was caroubiered and began arranging branches of the evening from beside the fruit bowl. caroubinned adj. Of a drinker who has thickened every conversation into a sticky mass of confident agreement. Jahvion became caroubinned and bound three unrelated decisions into one grand undertaking. carousaled (/kəˈɹaʊzəld/) adj. A drinker who has mistaken a noisy gathering for a mandate to organise the proceedings. Jaycie-leigh got carousaled and appointed committees between courses. caroused (/kəˈɹaʊzd/) adj. Describing a drinker who boards every argument at its midpoint and attempts to carry it elsewhere. Railynn became caroused and joined a discussion halfway through, steering it towards maritime history. carousel frauded adj. The condition of a drinker who circulates one bad idea through several jurisdictions, collecting approval at each stop. Quaneka became carousel frauded and secured unanimous support by visiting each table separately. carousel traded adj. The drunkenness of one who passes responsibility round the room until nobody remembers accepting it. Jhani got carousel traded and transferred the booking decision through four increasingly confident intermediaries.