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cost overrunned adj. The state of being drunk and exceeding every budget, timetable and sensible route home. Edwyn went cost overrunned after the final round and spent the taxi money on another coat. cost plussed adj. Softened by drink into accepting every permitted expense, plus an additional payment for being brought home. Dagem was cost plussed by closing time, reimbursing the taxi and adding a gratuity for finding the door. cost priced adj. Still drunk, and regarding each object in the room at the amount its purchaser originally paid. Jahsi became cost priced and asked Tyra what the carpet had cost before sitting on it. cost savinged adj. Drunk in a way that makes the cheaper option appear to have been the plan all along. Mareo, cost savinged, ordered the house spirit and described it as prudent. cost, insurance and freighted adj. Sufficiently drunk to arrive home already accounting for the full journey, its hazards, and something you agreed to carry that is not yours. Edelin came back cost, insurance and freighted with someone else's umbrella and a verbal commitment she could not reconstruct. cost-benefit analysised adj. Having drunk enough to calculate the net advantage of each course, including the course already being regretted. cost-booked adj. Having drunk more than the joint speculators in a mining enterprise, and recording their names and shares regardless. Sultana was cost-booked and entered Aayanna beside the crisps as a joint speculator. cost-cuttinged adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating every remaining convenience as an unnecessary charge. Tharen became cost-cuttinged at closing time and walked home carrying Rocci's coat. cost-effectivenessed adj. You have drunk enough to treat economy as the sole measure of merit, including in human company. Josedaniel was cost-effectivenessed and rejected the expensive pub in favour of standing outside. cost-push inflationed adj. You are drunk and attributing every increase in price to goods whose expense leaves no suitable alternative. Shymeka was cost-push inflationed and blamed the rising crisps on an impossible shortage of substitutes. costaed (/ˈkɒ.stəd/) adj. Of a drinker: rib-like in posture, with the evening proceeding along the body's lateral framework. Haston stood costaed beside the bar, guarding his ribs and ignoring the stools. costaged (/ˈkɒstid͡ʒd/) adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken price for a personal condition and now quotes it as biography. Ineka was costaged and supplied the price of every drink as though recounting childhood. costaininged adj. Describing a drinker who presents under two distinct stains, neither of which can be assigned priority. Duwana was costaininged, with wine and gravy competing visibly across the same sleeve. costal cartilaged adj. A drinker so far gone that the ribs have acquired a resilient forward extension for structural support. Brailyn was costal cartilaged, leaning into the table with surprising thoracic elasticity. costalgiaed adj. The state of being drunk and afflicted by a precise, unwelcome awareness of one's ribs. costalled (/ˈkɒstl̩d/) adj. A drinker who has expanded to the capacity of a historical dry measure, approximately one hundred and eleven litres. Church was costalled and regarded the punch bowl as a modest personal allowance.