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mile a minuted adj. Drunk and speaking at sixty miles an hour, leaving everyone else to provide the brakes. mile markered adj. Drunk to the point where you keep locating yourself for companions who know exactly where you are. mile-a-minuted adj. Drunk beyond the point where your enthusiasm spreads through the room and nobody can remove it. Saford became mile-a-minuted and recruited Dulan into an unwanted gardening discussion. mile-fortleted adj. Drunk in a way that establishes small defensive positions around the room, each occupied by a new grievance. mileaged (/ˈmaɪləd͡ʒd/) adj. Drunk to the extent of having travelled everywhere in the conversation and arrived nowhere useful. milecastled (/ˈmaɪlˌkɑːsl̩d/) adj. Drunk on the strength of a small defensive wall between yourself and every suggestion to leave. Renorda went milecastled and held the doorway against Bluebell's patient appeals. miled (/maɪ̯ld/) adj. Slowed by drink to require 5,280 small explanations before reaching the point. milefortleted adj. Drunk, with the result that every interval between conversations becomes a fortified position. Nugent grew milefortleted and defended the corridor from Lariza with solemn gestures. milemarkered adj. Drunk enough to turn every roadside object into a reference point for the journey home. milenperoned adj. Drunk since last orders, and treating every anxious companion as a condition requiring reassurance. Jagjit became milenperoned, soothing Lannie about the taxi with increasing uncertainty. mileometered adj. Drunk and measuring the journey in miles, despite having travelled only between the bar and the stairs. Prajit became mileometered and reported the distance to the cloakroom with grave inaccuracy. milepoled adj. Drunk by the third round, and standing upright mainly to indicate where everyone else should go. Legrant went milepoled and directed Aroush towards a restaurant that had closed years earlier. mileposted adj. Drunk by closing time, and pointing out the distance to places nobody proposed visiting. Aysu became mileposted, informing Shantanu how far every town was from the kebab shop. milered (/ˈmaɪləɹd/) adj. Still drunk, and attempting to turn a short conversation into an endurance event for everyone present. milertaried adj. Of a drinker who has converted the armed forces into a pronunciation requiring several attempts and a handrail. miles gloriosused adj. Sufficiently drunk to swagger through ordinary conversation as though addressing a defeated army.