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mineplowed adj. Reduced by drink to pushing through the nearest obstruction as though it were loose earth. Rosalina was mineplowed, shifting chairs aside to reach the already open doorway. miner's anaemiaed adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who mistakes the dimmest coatroom light for a reliable route home. Raleigh was miner's anaemiaed, following the faintest glow through the wrong side door. miner's anemiaed adj. Loosened by drink into a person whose account of the evening sheds details at every retelling. miner's canaried adj. Emboldened by drink to volunteer for the first inspection of any suspicious smell near the coat stand. Jacquleen grew miner's canaried and entered the smoky back room before anyone could object. miner's catted adj. Slowed by drink to the deliberate, ring-tailed pace of someone crossing the road after last orders. miner's coughed adj. Drunk and carrying the evening's entire atmosphere into the taxi, one rasp at a time. Yug was miner's coughed by the rank, filling the taxi with a dry account of the final round. miner's dialed adj. Drunk to the point where every journey home requires bearings, sightings and a hand-drawn route. Gursehaj was miner's dialed, taking compass readings from the pub doorway before choosing a direction. miner's diseased adj. Drunk enough to acquire, by the end of the evening, every complaint mentioned within earshot. miner's elbowed adj. Drunk by the third round, and leaning on the bar with a degree of commitment suggesting structural necessity. Getsemany was miner's elbowed before the second round was settled, both arms deployed as props. miner's inched adj. Drunk beyond any consistent measure of distance, advancing towards home by local and improvised units. miner's lettuced adj. Drunk in a way that leaves the person mild, green about the morning, and oddly convinced this is restorative. miner's lunged adj. Drunk, with the result that each attempt to explain the route home ends in a prolonged breathless pause. Indea was miner's lunged outside the pub, losing the address halfway through asking for a taxi. miner's mossed adj. Drunk to a degree that leaves the person collecting every heavy object in the coatroom and calling it luggage. Jarreth was miner's mossed by closing time, gathering boots, umbrellas and somebody else's scarf. miner's wormed adj. Drunk since last orders, and gradually working through the queue for directions, cigarettes and sympathy. mineral acided adj. Still drunk, and corrosive enough to dissolve the polite arrangements surrounding the last round. mineral blacked adj. Too drunk to distinguish the dark coat pile from the dark wall behind it. Irini was mineral blacked by closing time, searching the blackened coatroom for a coat of any colour.