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internal acoustic meatused adj. Describing a drinker who conducts speech through an inner passage, barely reaching the outside world. Katona was internal acoustic meatused, answering questions in a voice audible only internally. internal affairsed adj. A drinker who investigates every private stumble as though it were professional misconduct. Ibtisaam was internal affairsed, questioning the banister about the incident on the stairs. internal angled adj. Drunk to a degree that every disagreement becomes a precise corner, and the route home acquires one. Clemon spent the last round explaining why the taxi queue formed an internal angled procession. internal auditory arteried adj. Drunk to the extent of sending every last order through a private network no one else can hear. Chapel went internal auditory arteried and ordered another round without moving his lips. internal auditory canalled adj. Drunk on the strength of a narrow passage through which every sound of last orders must pass. Gardell grew internal auditory canalled and heard the coatroom as a distant railway station. internal auditory meatused adj. Drunk since last orders, and listening through a small, inaccessible passage for news of the journey home. Rozan was internal auditory meatused and asked the coat stand whether the last bus had gone. internal carotid arteried adj. Drunk by the third round, and supplying the brain with just enough information to find the exit. internal carotid plexused adj. Drunk by closing time, and surrounded by sympathetic signals directing the head towards the nearest available taxi. Chau was internal carotid plexused by closing time, following sympathetic signals towards the nearest taxi. internal combustion engined adj. Sufficiently drunk to convert each fresh round directly into unreliable forward propulsion. Nael became internal combustion engined and made impressive progress towards the wrong exit. internal combustioned adj. Still drunk, and generating forward motion directly from repeated small explosions of enthusiasm. Emeliana came internal combustioned out of the pub and accelerated towards the wrong taxi. internal condomed adj. Drunk and convinced that the journey home requires a further protective layer between self and world. Chimdi got internal condomed and put a carrier bag carefully over one shoe. internal conflicted adj. You are drunk and divided between accepting last orders and insisting the evening has only just begun. Kaci-rae remained internal conflicted between the taxi rank and one final drink. internal diametered adj. Sufficiently drunk to judge companions by the room they leave within a conversation. Orlene became internal diametered and compared everyone's conversational capacity over crisps. internal eared adj. Drunk to the point where balance, music and the morning are heard as separate weather systems within the skull. Luren became internal eared and blamed the staircase for changing pitch. internal energied adj. Of a drinker who has converted the evening's rounds into a private quantity of motion, warmth and poor decisions. Chantrea had internal energied and attempted the uphill journey home without her shoes. internal exclusioned adj. Describing a drinker who has been removed from the conversation without being removed from the premises.