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control citied adj. Drunk to the point where every staircase landing is treated as a named destination. Rashad was control citied, announcing each landing as though it were marked on a motorway sign. control coded adj. Drunk enough to communicate through gestures that trigger specific actions instead of forming words. Donella was control coded, pointing at the banister and expecting it to initiate the descent. control columned adj. You are drunk and steering the walk home by both hands, with the pavement answering sluggishly. Idan came out of the pub control columned, holding the rail as though it were a cockpit. control couplinged adj. Of a drinker: directing the flow of the round by passing instructions nobody has retained. Melroy was control couplinged, assigning pints while forgetting which coat belonged to him. control engineeringed adj. Of a drinker who has designed an elaborate system for getting home, and is now ignoring it. Melanne became control engineeringed and drew the night bus route on a beer mat. control experimented adj. Describing a drinker who compares every round with the one before, without isolating any useful variable. Shaquiel grew control experimented and blamed the final pint for the entire journey home. control freaked adj. A drinker who insists on organising the round, the coats, and the route home. Adaliene got control freaked and appointed herself keeper of every coat at closing time. control freakeried adj. A drinker so far gone that last orders become an occasion for managing everyone else's decisions. Ethelbert became control freakeried and tried to schedule the queue for the toilets. control functioned adj. The state of being drunk and assigning each movement of the evening a separate operational purpose. Trenadi was control functioned, giving the coat-check, taxi, and kebab distinct procedures. control gened adj. The condition of a drinker who regulates everyone else's conversation while losing command of their own. Ashlyne became control gened and silenced three people before forgetting the original subject. control gridded adj. The drunkenness of one who filters the evening's signals through a fine wire and amplifies the least important ones. Elvert was control gridded, amplifying a remark about coats into a speech at closing time. control grouped adj. Reduced by drink to sorting companions into experimental categories, with nobody receiving the promised comparison. Alissiya became control grouped and divided the party into taxi, bus, and uncertain groups. control jointed adj. Softened by drink into cracking along the planned route, especially wherever the pavement changes direction. Markya went control jointed and folded at every corner between the pub and the station. control keyed adj. Sharpened by drink into pressing one instruction repeatedly, with increasingly unrelated results. Milove got control keyed and kept pressing the taxi app while holding the pub receipt. control mechanismed adj. Loosened by drink into a system whose variables are no longer held within any useful bounds. Jovone became control mechanismed and allowed the evening to select its own destination. control numbered adj. Emboldened by drink to identify every coat, receipt, and round with a number nobody requested. Daria-maria got control numbered and labelled the coats before the bar had closed.