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cat cubed adj. Drunk since last orders, and reduced by morning to a bright, angular object with ears and a tail. Izobella arrived cat cubed, sitting squarely on the sofa and refusing to discuss the missing corner. cat doored adj. Drunk by the third round, and making repeated small exits through whatever opening the morning provides. Adael went cat doored at breakfast, slipping through the kitchen doorway whenever conversation approached. cat factoried adj. Drunk by closing time, and breeding identical complaints in separate rooms throughout the morning. Terrance woke cat factoried, with three matching complaints and nowhere suitable to keep them. cat farmed adj. Still drunk, and maintaining several small, poorly supervised versions of yesterday's hangover. Lizzieann remained cat farmed through brunch, each headache occupying its own corner of the room. cat fighted adj. You have drunk enough to conduct a quarrel between two imagined cats with regrettable authenticity. Akaylia got cat fighted and disputed the window seat with an animal no one else could see. cat flaped adj. Too drunk to negotiate a full doorway, but capable of pushing through a smaller one for water. Magdalene went cat flaped at breakfast, using the cupboard gap as though it were the proper entrance. cat fooded adj. Having drunk more than the stomach can process, and regarding dry cereal as a medically sound recovery. Lynmarie woke cat fooded, eating plain biscuits from a bowl and declining all human conversation. cat furred adj. You are drunk and covered by the soft, clinging evidence of having slept somewhere unplanned. Rakai woke cat furred, with the sofa's blanket attached to him and no account of the night. cat girled adj. Softened by drink into adopting a feline costume and performing domestic grace for an unimpressed audience. Daishon became cat girled and patrolled the lounge in borrowed ears. cat graped adj. Describing a drinker who wakes sour, tight-lipped and unexpectedly full of small purple convictions. Jacquees was cat graped by breakfast, sourly defending each grape he found in the fruit bowl. cat holed adj. Drunk on the strength of believing the garden requires a small private excavation before bed. Jhovani became cat holed and took a trowel outside after finishing the kitchen water. cat hotelled adj. A drinker who has checked into the sofa for the morning and expects no visitors. Tnaya went cat hotelled after coffee, accepting water at the door but declining to vacate the cushions. cat housed adj. Drunk to a degree that makes the snug feel like a discreet enclosure for prowling. Ambereen got cat housed and spent an hour patrolling between the tables. cat iced adj. A drinker so far gone that the morning finds them sealed in a thin, brittle layer of stillness. Amolika woke cat iced, motionless beneath the duvet until the first cup of tea thawed her. cat in the meal tubbed adj. The condition of a drinker who conceals the dangerous part of the morning beneath an innocent breakfast. Zarra was cat in the meal tubbed, hiding yesterday's decisions under a respectable bowl of porridge. cat in the meal-tubbed adj. The drunkenness of one who keeps the morning's hidden danger beneath the breakfast things. Marquitha stayed cat in the meal-tubbed, discussing toast while the night's consequences remained concealed.