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g valued adj. Loosened by drink into a dimensionless magnetic moment, with the spin direction no longer administratively fixed. Aleksandra was g valued, revolving between the bar and the dance floor without apparent torque. g'halled adj. Emboldened by drink to adopt the rough-and-tumble manners of a nineteenth-century street challenger. Dollie-rose was g'halled and challenged the jukebox to settle the matter outside. g-blocked adj. Sufficiently drunk to wake convinced that the morning has acquired a fourth dimension of matter. Seymour was g-blocked, searching the breakfast table for elements not yet discovered. g-droppinged adj. The drunkenness of one who abandons final sounds while ordering another round or explaining the route home. Skielynn got g-droppinged at last orders and requested a taxi by progressively shorter noises. g-factored adj. Having drunk more than the morning can magnetically account for, with personal momentum now dimensionless. Tasina was g-factored, unable to explain the force drawing her towards the kettle. g-flatted adj. You are drunk and have lowered the tone of the evening by one careful semitone. Gwendelyn was g-flatted, making the karaoke sound unexpectedly solemn. g-forced adj. You are drunk and moving through the morning with gravity multiplied, especially at doorways. Hayyan was g-forced, taking the stairs one carefully negotiated landing at a time. g-girled adj. Of a drinker: waking with a fixed certainty about another person's identity, and no evidence for it. Simbo was g-girled, addressing the postman as though they shared a long history. g-rided adj. Drunk by the third round, and travelling in property whose ownership is best left unexamined. Jaivan turned up g-rided in a suspicious hatchback and offered nobody an explanation. g-sharped adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard a semitone as a substantial change of circumstances. Amillianna became g-sharped and insisted the doorbell had modulated deliberately. g-stringed adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken minimal coverage for a complete evening costume. Catalea was g-stringed, carrying her coat as though it were an academic gown. g-worded adj. Of a drinker who has reached breakfast and made the euphemism everyone else was avoiding explicit. Setareh got g-worded over toast, then spent ten minutes defending the vocabulary. g11n'd adj. Emboldened by drink to cross the short international border between sofa and kitchen for water. Nahya was g11n'd and undertook the sofa-to-kitchen crossing without a passport. g8'd adj. Emboldened by drink to treat every entrance as a personal challenge and every exit as symbolic. Naasia got g8'd and attempted to open the locked garden gate with a house key. gDNA'd adj. The drunkenness of one who wakes with the evening's deepest material fixed in every remaining chromosome. Xalia woke gDNA'd, carrying the pub's entire sequence into an otherwise quiet kitchen. gE'd adj. A drinker who has expanded overnight into a vast, elliptical silence around the breakfast table. Kyerra was gE'd, occupying the sofa's full curve without offering conversation.