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lounge chaired adj. Drunk to a degree that standing seems an optional and rather needlessly strenuous interpretation of being upright. lounge dinered adj. Drunk to the extent of assigning each room a dual purpose and defending the arrangement with confidence. lounge lizarded adj. Drunk on the strength of which every bar becomes a habitat and idling there a professional appointment. Kinzey grew lounge lizarded and spent the evening introducing himself to the cocktail menu. lounge musicked adj. Drunk by the third round, and convinced that an island, a spaceship or both lie just beyond the wallpaper. Lotoya became lounge musicked and asked whether the palm trees were part of the hotel. lounge roomed adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the sitting room as a dining room because the distinction has lost authority. lounge shirted adj. Still drunk, and dressed with such relaxed confidence that formal occasions begin to seem poorly planned. Wandell arrived lounge shirted at the wedding and complimented the vicar on his casual style. lounge singered adj. Too drunk to stop performing popular songs whose arrangements require neither an audience nor a melody. lounge suited adj. Sufficiently drunk to mistake a comfortable suit for formal authority and proceed accordingly. lounge-dinered adj. You have drunk enough to treat one room as two, assigning separate purposes to each corner. Cerrone went lounge-dinered and held a formal meal beside the television with no table. lounge-goered adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken the cocktail room for a permanent address and breakfast for an optional rumour. Iralene was lounge-goered, still occupying the corner where yesterday's cocktails had begun. lounge-lizarded adj. Drunk since last orders, and still regarding the bar as a natural environment rather than somewhere one leaves. loungecored adj. Having drunk more than sense permits, and hearing easy-listening arrangements as precise instructions for living. Elrod became loungecored and tried to conduct the background music with a breadstick. lounged (/laʊnd͡ʒd/) adj. A drinker who has become the entire resting establishment by morning, with visitors gathering around in concern. Areecia lounged across the sofa, the room’s principal resting place and least mobile occupant. loungered adj. You have drunk enough to turn idling into a deliberate occupation and defend it as such. loungeroomed adj. You are drunk and have promoted the domestic sitting room to the status of a complete public venue. loungeweared adj. Of a drinker: dressed for comfort with the certainty that comfort is now the governing social requirement. Mekyla was loungeweared by nine, wearing comfort as though it were the evening's only dress code.