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center forwarded adj. Of a drinker: positioned centrally, prepared to start something, and not especially accurate. Kalis was center forwarded and took responsibility for the opening conversation. center islanded adj. Drunk enough to become an immovable obstruction between opposing flows of traffic and opinion. Leshly grew center islanded and caused a queue to form on either side of the doorway. center lined adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing opposing traffic, yet confident enough to provide road advice. Coey was center lined, directing pedestrians into opposite streams with measured authority. center marked adj. Drunk past the point of locating the centre without marking it repeatedly on unsuitable surfaces. Cialadh became center marked and drew a small circle on the restaurant receipt. center of attentioned adj. Drunk to a degree that makes every entrance, stumble and explanation the principal event. Savera was center of attentioned when the landlord’s farewell became a lecture on the correct use of the umbrella stand. center of buoyancied adj. Drunk on the strength of an imagined floating point, and therefore unable to say which way is down. Yasheka was center of buoyancied and negotiated the staircase as though it were a tide. center of curvatured adj. Drunk by the third round, and returning to the same crooked path after every attempted correction. Sharrell went center of curvatured, tracing a neat arc from the bar to the stairs. center of efforted adj. Slowed by drink to the point where all available force is applied through exactly the wrong spot, and the vessel goes nowhere in particular. Marc-antoine was center of efforted at the helm of the conversation and driving it steadily sideways. center of excellenced adj. Drunk in a way that confers leadership, research, and support upon an otherwise ordinary pub seat. Chantle became center of excellenced and began issuing best practice guidance on ordering chips. center of gravitied (/ˌsɛn.təɹ əv ˈɡɹæv.ə.tid/) adj. A drinker who, by morning, has located the precise point through which all movement and regret appear to act. Vantrice spent breakfast standing exactly where the household's forces seemed to converge, thoroughly center of gravitied. center of inertiaed adj. Sufficiently drunk to remain committed to the original direction after the rest of the body has changed its mind. Zura went center of inertiaed and continued towards the stairs after missing the hallway. center of lifted adj. Having drunk more than the legs can accommodate, pitching forward whenever the floor appears level. Lakecia got center of lifted and nearly took flight over the first stair. center of massed adj. Of a drinker: the body has found its centre, but the limbs remain at a considerable distance from it. center of symmetried adj. Describing a drinker who remains almost perfectly balanced until any movement introduces two opposite errors. Becci was center of symmetried, standing evenly until the first step divided her into two directions. center punched adj. The state of being drunk and waking with a small, purposeful indentation in every recollection. Kerry-anne arrived for coffee center punched, with each memory marked neatly for later drilling. center spotted adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes convinced the room's central mark is still the point of play. Uilliam was center spotted by breakfast, standing over the rug as though awaiting the next delivery.