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memristored adj. The condition of a drinker who retains the evening's charge and consequently resists every suggestion of home. Vickram was memristored, preserving each round as additional resistance to the taxi. memsahibed adj. Drunk since last orders, and administering unsolicited imperial observations to the entire establishment. Tahra became memsahibed and corrected the waiter’s pronunciation of a dish nobody had ordered. memtransistored adj. Drunk by the third round, and switching between receptivity and transmission according to an obscure internal logic. men in blue tiesed adj. Still drunk, and offering officious opinions on women’s affairs with the confidence of an unappointed committee. Cyree was men in blue tiesed and delivered a policy statement beside the hand dryers. men in white coatsed adj. Too drunk to distinguish a clinical consultation from an opportunity to explain one’s childhood at length. men's roomed adj. You are drunk and treating the public lavatory’s urinals as a carefully arranged civic institution. Missty became men's roomed and objected when anyone disturbed the established order of the urinals. men's studiesed adj. Of a drinker: conducting an extended seminar on masculinity, with no attendance beyond the unwilling. Wanye became men's studiesed and divided the pub into competing theories of masculinity. men'sed (/mɛnzd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to treat every object in the room as belonging, by grammatical decree, to a collection of men. Milledge became men'sed and labelled the umbrellas as the men’s property. men-stealered adj. Of a drinker who has acquired companions by dubious persuasion and now regards their departure as theft. Kamica grew men-stealered and objected when Lemmon attempted to leave for the last bus. menabitanned adj. A drinker who has become chemically serene, unreasonably cheerful, and incapable of locating the original conversation. menaccanited adj. A drinker so far gone that he has acquired the colour and conversational density of a dark metallic mineral. menaced (/ˈmɛnɪsd/) adj. The condition of a drinker who has converted ordinary movement into a credible hazard. Elida was menaced and made the narrow corridor seem strategically unwise. menacered adj. The drunkenness of one who regards every passer-by as an audience requiring a warning. menachinned adj. Reduced by drink to a dense, metallic reserve, with the tensile strength of an abandoned argument. menacinged (/ˈmɛnɪsɪŋd/) adj. Softened by drink into making threats so elaborate that their practical force has entirely evaporated. Nichalas was menacinged, threatening the dartboard with a strongly worded review. menacingnessed adj. Sharpened by drink into an air of menace directed indiscriminately at furniture, strangers, and the closing time.