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diamond birded adj. You are drunk and darting between coats with the bright, spotted alertness of a small Australian bird. Shannette was diamond birded, darting between coats while searching for her missing shoe. diamond bracketed adj. Too drunk to leave any conversation, exit or coat outside an unmistakably angular boundary. Majka became diamond bracketed and placed the taxi inside verbal punctuation. diamond carried adj. Of a drinker who has assembled four people to transport them, with considerable stability, towards the taxi. Rahmon was diamond carried from the pub by four friends after declining the perfectly usable pavement. diamond crossed adj. Describing a drinker who has knitted the evening into an intricate pattern and cannot find its edge. Beniamin was diamond crossed, weaving a complicated route between the bar and the abandoned coats. diamond crossinged adj. A drinker who repeatedly meets their own route at right angles while attempting to leave. Kairese became diamond crossinged and reached the same junction from three apparently different directions. diamond crossovered adj. A drinker so far gone that every route home appears to permit travel in both directions at once. Onesha was diamond crossovered and attempted to take both parallel pavements to the taxi rank. diamond cuttered adj. The state of being drunk and carefully reducing every conversation to its hardest, least useful point. diamond doved adj. The condition of a drinker who has become gentle, Australian and unexpectedly determined to roost near the exit. diamond ducked adj. The drunkenness of one who departs on the first opportunity without scoring a single coherent explanation. Haiti went diamond ducked and left after one drink, having somehow missed every sensible conversation. diamond dusted adj. Reduced by drink to a low cloud of tiny, cold decisions drifting at pavement level. Angeleena was diamond dusted and moved through the taxi queue in a glittering ground-level haze. diamond firetailed adj. Softened by drink into a small, red-tailed creature that cannot be hurried towards the journey home. Laima became diamond firetailed and paused beneath every lamp between the pub and the taxi. diamond framed adj. Sharpened by drink into an upright, rigid outline, suitable for leaning against while waiting for transport. Nusayba was diamond framed and remained vertical beside the bicycle rack through last orders. diamond graphed adj. Loosened by drink into four points of certainty joined by five increasingly questionable routes home. Selso was diamond graphed, connecting the bar, cloakroom, taxi rank and kebab shop without explanation. diamond handsed adj. Emboldened by drink to hold the final round, the coat and the taxi receipt through every fluctuation. diamond in the roughed adj. Slowed by drink to an uncut brilliance, requiring patient handling before reaching the front door. diamond jubileed adj. Drunk and celebrating the evening as a reign of sixty years, despite having arrived after eight. Xaniah was diamond jubileed and delivered a coronation speech while collecting the wrong coat.