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D5W'd adj. The condition of a drinker who has been diluted to five per cent of their former usefulness. Madyline was D5W'd by the second round and needed assistance locating the loo. D8'd adj. Drunk by closing time, and requiring eight household objects to make the journey to bed seem feasible. Anissia was D8'd and gathered cushions, blankets and mugs before moving anywhere. DA'd adj. Drunk, with the result that every friendly disagreement is presented to the room for prosecution. Shalima got DA'd and cross-examined Turney over who had moved the salt. DA-noticed adj. The drunkenness of one who has privately agreed that the evening must not be reported. Ireonna was DA-noticed and lowered her voice before ordering another round. DABCO'd adj. Drunk, with the result that a caged pair of confident ideas directs every subsequent movement. Bernon got DABCO'd and guided the taxi from inside a highly specific mental enclosure. DAC'd adj. Drunk enough to turn every finite remark into an endlessly analogue anecdote. Tavish got DAC'd and expanded a yes-or-no question into a warm, shapeless monologue. DACL'd adj. Drunk enough to classify every person approaching the kitchen according to a private access list. Cherril was DACL'd, granting coffee access to some visitors and denying it to the cat. DADP'd adj. Sharpened by drink into a brittle presence whose every remark threatens to decompose the gathering. Albertia became DADP'd and made Elijah-james reconsider the structural integrity of small talk. DAE'd adj. Drunk, with the result that every technical difficulty becomes an engineering project of unnecessary scope. Shamarie was DAE'd and redesigned the pub's speaker wiring on a napkin. DAF'd adj. A drinker who has paid for the journey only as far as the border of good sense. Jaquandra was DAF'd by ten, delivered to the frontier of the dance floor and left there. DAG'd adj. Drunk to the extent of prosecuting every disagreement while appointing friends to carry the argument. Charlie-louise became DAG'd and instructed Fue to cross-examine the barman. DAGN'd adj. Emboldened by drink to merge two separate lines of conversation, exciting both centres and serving neither. Jackueline got DAGN'd at dinner, joining two arguments and disturbing both of their speakers. DAL'd adj. Describing a drinker who has placed every decision behind an inaccessible layer and carried on regardless. Fifer got DAL'd and confidently blamed the missing coat on an architecture problem. DALK'd adj. Still drunk, and moving with the cautious precision of someone protecting a very particular surface. Tenly was DALK'd and descended with both eyes fixed firmly on the next tread. DALY'd (/ˈdælid/) adj. Drunk in a way that subtracts measurable years from the household's useful evening. Johvanny was DALY'd, losing several productive years to one glass of water and the sofa. DAM'd adj. Drunk in a way that catalogues every object, assigns ownership, and misplaces the catalogue. Zeph got DAM'd and labelled the glasses according to their presumed custodians.