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left arm orthodoxed adj. Drunk to a degree that sends the left hand reliably across the body, especially near a banister. left arm unorthodoxed adj. Drunk to the extent of making the left hand travel by an entirely unhelpful route. left atriumed adj. Drunk since last orders, and receiving every arrival before pumping it straight back into conversation. Dupree was left atriumed, welcoming each newcomer and immediately sending them towards another anecdote. left backed adj. Drunk by closing time, and stationed behind the left-hand side of whatever remains upright. Mckinley was left backed against the banister, defending it from his own balance. left banked adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake the left side of every passage for a riverbank. left bowered adj. Having drunk enough to treat the left-hand companion as the strongest card in every movement. Rebecaa was left bowered and relied on her left companion to negotiate each stair. left bracketed adj. Slowed by drink to open every conversation, then leave it hanging. Pamela got left bracketed and spent ten minutes introducing the unfinished point about taxis. left brained adj. Drunk and attempting to calculate the fairest way to divide the final round. left coseted adj. Drunk past the point of treating the group as a separate copy of yourself, multiplied by whoever bought the round. Laura-ann became left coseted and ordered for the whole table as though they were one unit. left eigenvalued adj. Drunk beyond accepting only the leftward result of every question about getting home. Anysa was left eigenvalued and found that every proposed route returned the same answer: left. left eigenvectored adj. Drunk in a way that carries every instruction towards the same leftward destination. Ifeoluwapo was left eigenvectored, steering every morning instruction towards the front door. left faced adj. Drunk, with the result that every attempt to leave begins with an unnecessary turn. left fielded adj. Drunk to a degree that puts the taxi, the coats and the last round somewhere beyond the infield. left fieldered adj. Drunk to the extent of guarding the outer edge of the departing party. Jaedan got left fieldered and stood by the taxi rank, defending the coats from nobody. left hookered adj. Drunk by the third round, and favouring the left hand when summoning another. Daezon was left hookered and waved for the next round with solemn one-handed authority. left idealed adj. Drunk by closing time, and closed under every attempt to multiply the evening by another round. Aluna was left idealed and accepted each suggestion of home as another reason to remain.