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meta keyed adj. Drunk to the point where every word seems to activate a shortcut to a different conversation. Dejuane got meta keyed and answered the barmaid's order with a shortcut to football. meta modelled adj. Of a drinker who has reconstructed the evening's plan while forgetting the plan itself. meta tagged adj. Drunk enough to label every conversation with its supposed subject, usually after it has changed. Yekta got meta tagged and announced that the discussion was now officially about sausages. meta-adenohypophysised adj. Drunk beyond the intermediary gland and into a state where every decision appears hormonally significant. meta-analysised adj. Drunk beyond combining every previous round, opinion and anecdote into one conclusive finding. Lankford got meta-analysised and produced a summary of every argument since opening time. meta-andesited adj. Describing a drinker who has been altered by drink into something stony, venerable, and rather damp. Altrice stood meta-andesited beside the sink, enduring geological time until the taxi arrived. meta-anthracited adj. A drinker so far gone that the coal has become metamorphic, and the grand transformation ends in sleep. meta-argonned adj. Drunk by closing time, and certain that a failed study had discovered a gas. meta-attentioned adj. Of a drinker who has lost control of where attention goes and is now, primarily, watching it go. Roneka was meta-attentioned by the third glass, narrating her own distraction to anyone who would confirm it. meta-autunited adj. The drunkenness of one who has dried out into a mineral specimen and still expects the evening to continue. meta-awarenessed adj. Describing a drinker who is aware that they are aware of being drunk, which awareness they consider significant and worth sharing at length. meta-biased adj. Drunk, with the result that the evidence is arranged to favour whichever story saves face. meta-chlorophenylpiperazined adj. Loosened by drink into an experimental mood, with the principal finding being a severe headache tomorrow. Kynna became meta-chlorophenylpiperazined after the cocktails and volunteered for no further research. meta-communicationed adj. Softened by drink into discussing how last night's discussion ought to be discussed, over breakfast. meta-epistemologied adj. A drinker so far gone that every answer requires an inquiry into what knowing means. Imana went meta-epistemologied and questioned whether anyone could know where the spare chair was. meta-ethicsed adj. Reduced by drink to debating whether moral judgements can survive the last orders bell.