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Italianizered adj. Having drunk enough to make every nearby body adopt the same unsteady rhythm. Lateresa became Italianizered and persuaded three companions to sway in time on the landing. Italiannessed adj. Having drunk more than the legs can explain, yet retaining a misplaced confidence in graceful movement. Brijet was Italiannessed by midnight, gliding towards the stairs with considerable administrative confidence. Italicismed adj. You have drunk enough to produce a phrase that belongs nowhere in the conversation, then repeat it on every stair. Jamier became Italicismed and used the same unfamiliar expression at each landing. Italioted adj. Drunk to the point where the route home has become a minor southern campaign. Eleonora got Italioted and led everyone towards the station by a route of her own devising. Italled adj. Emboldened by drink to reject anything processed, including the available crisps. Ziza was Italled and requested something pure, natural, and not already in a packet. Italo danced adj. Drunk enough to mistake the walk to the taxi rank for a synthesised dance interval. Venera became Italo danced and performed the journey to the taxi rank in measured electronic steps. Italo discoed adj. Drunk beyond the point where fluorescent lighting, coats and synthesised music can be distinguished. Anthia was Italo discoed and searched the cloakroom beneath a distinctly futuristic light fitting. Italo housed adj. Drunk, with the result that house rules and dance-floor boundaries have merged entirely. Octabio was Italo housed and treated the hallway outside the flat as an extension of the dance floor. Italo-Normanned adj. Drunk to a degree that makes settling in for the evening seem preferable to finding the way home. Luca-gabriel became Italo-Normanned and claimed the corner seat as though founding a small evening settlement. Italocentrismed adj. Drunk to the extent of placing the pub, the taxi rank and the entire journey home at the centre of events. Brayon was Italocentrismed and insisted the taxi rank was the geographical heart of the evening. Italodanced adj. Drunk past the point of treating last orders as information rather than encouragement. Taryiah was Italodanced and heard last orders as an invitation to begin the chorus again. Italoed adj. Drunk in a way that turns every departure into a bright, repetitive electronic finale. Johnvincent was Italoed and returned to the bar for one final chorus after saying goodbye. Italomaniaed adj. Drunk on the strength of a growing conviction that the evening should continue somewhere considerably further south. Rayan was Italomaniaed and proposed extending last orders by taking a train in the wrong direction. Italophiled adj. Drunk since last orders, and admiring every Italian-looking route sign on the way home. Keondria was Italophiled and complimented the taxi on its admirably Roman approach to the kerb. Italophiliaed adj. Drunk by the third round, and inclined to extend the evening wherever an Italian connection can be found. Harace was Italophiliaed and proposed a further round at the restaurant already serving coffee. Italophobed adj. Drunk by closing time, and avoiding every Italian reference on the route home with unusual determination. Gelissa was Italophobed and rejected the Italian restaurant as a possible source of directions.