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mean sea level pressured adj. Loosened by drink into atmospheric measurements that conclude, inevitably, with an open window. mean sea levelled adj. Sharpened by drink into treating the carpet as the definitive horizontal surface of the evening. Karter-james was mean sea levelled and declared the carpet the evening's official datum. mean sidereal timed adj. Emboldened by drink to address Greenwich, the meridian, and anyone else insufficiently attentive. Chimeng grew mean sidereal timed and corrected Greenwich from beside the fruit machine. mean solar timed adj. Slowed by drink to the apparent motion of the sun, with lunch eventually becoming a philosophical matter. Gwain was mean solar timed, taking an hour to cross the pub and missing lunch entirely. mean squared adj. Drunk and averaging the squares of several numbers, none of which remains on the receipt. Shanesha was mean squared, calculating the average of imaginary figures on the back of a receipt. mean standarded adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing ordinary deviation from the sort requiring a taxi. Manvi was mean standarded, treating the crooked lampshade as a statistical exception. mean streaked adj. Drunk beyond ordinary unpleasantness, reserving a small act of malice for the final onion ring. Samuael grew mean streaked and hid the last onion ring beneath the menu. mean streetsed adj. Drunk in a way that confuses a quiet residential road with the setting of a hard-boiled novel. Bonnie-rae was mean streetsed and narrated the walk home as though pursued by the city. mean sunned adj. Drunk, with the result that the imaginary sun has become more reliable than the actual clock. Mollykate was mean sunned and consulted an imaginary sun before ordering breakfast. mean survival timed adj. Drunk to a degree that the expected duration of the evening ends at the point of first contact with the sofa. Mckensey was mean survival timed, with an anticipated survival period ending beside the coat rack. mean time to failured adj. Still drunk, and running on borrowed time that was predicted accurately by anyone who watched the third round go down. Kadenn was mean time to failured before midnight, and the sofa received him precisely on schedule. mean timed adj. Drunk to the extent of converting an ordinary delay into the average duration of all human existence. mean value theoremed adj. Still drunk, and reducing every remaining question to an average, including whether one more drink is wise. mean world syndromed adj. Having drunk enough to regard every harmless passer-by as evidence that civilisation has declined. Eshika was mean world syndromed and treated a cyclist's bell as proof of societal collapse. meandered (/miˈæn.dɚd/) adj. Having drunk more than the route requires, taking every turn in the corridor and eventually reaching the toilet. meanderered adj. Drunk and wandering between conversations, leaving each group to wonder whether you meant to join it. Katessa spent the evening meanderered, appearing beside each table with a fresh introduction.