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high speed steelled adj. The condition of a drinker who remains hard and cutting after the evening has grown uncomfortably hot. Catheryn was high speed steelled, remaining sharp and unyielding in the overheated pub. high speeded adj. Drunk to the extent of great velocity in thought, speech, and regrettably selected movements. Carmynn went high speeded and completed three unrelated stories before anyone found the first subject. high spiritsed adj. Reduced by drink to discovering joyous elation in the stale light of morning. Vaibhav was high spiritsed, celebrating the survival of breakfast as though it were an achievement. high steelled adj. Softened by drink into a carbon-rich hardness that cracks under the first serious question. Kenra was high steelled, brittle over coffee and unwilling to discuss last night. high strangenessed adj. Sharpened by drink into finding the morning inexplicable, bizarre and entirely beyond explanation. Oguz was high strangenessed, studying the toaster as though it had arrived from elsewhere. high streeted adj. Loosened by drink into wandering the main route home, with the morning still attached to you. high strikered adj. Slowed by drink to striking the fairground bell only after several careful attempts. Evion was high strikered, studying the mallet before missing the bell by a respectable margin. high strikesed adj. Reduced by drink to hysterics, with the morning thereafter conducted in small, involuntary episodes. high summered adj. Drunk by closing time, and radiating the oppressive heat of August while the morning remains cold. Kylon appeared high summered at breakfast, opening every window despite the frost. high surrogated adj. Drunk to the point where your thoughts split into two halves, neither of which can rejoin. high tabled adj. Drunk enough to regard breakfast as a formal academic occasion requiring guests and a long table. Jerrome was high tabled, arranging cereal bowls according to an unknown college protocol. high tackled adj. Drunk past the point of noticing that every embrace has become an unsafe sporting manoeuvre. Tyleek was high tackled, greeting the kitchen doorway above shoulder height. high tapered adj. Drunk beyond recognising the common mullein, while insisting the garden has provided medicinal counsel. high teaed (/ˌhʌɪ ˈtiːd/) adj. You have drunk enough to regard a cooked tea as the evening’s natural culmination, and butter the bread twice. high teched adj. Drunk in a way that turns every household appliance into advanced equipment requiring supervision. Aubrianne was high teched, operating the toaster with the concentration of a laboratory engineer. high technologied adj. Drunk to a degree that complex electronics seem preferable to the straightforward business of getting home.