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metal shopped adj. Of a drinker: still attending practical lessons in coat retrieval after the bar has closed. Kelce was metal shopped and spent ten minutes learning how the cloakroom ticket worked. metal-organic frameworked adj. Describing a drinker who has become a porous cage for successive rounds, with the contents escaping gradually towards home. metalammoniumed adj. A drinker so far gone that the hydrogen has been replaced by metal, making the walk home unexpectedly heavy. Elani was metalammoniumed and required both hands to carry a coat belonging to nobody present. metalanguaged adj. The state of being drunk and describing the evening in terms too technical for the people having it. metalated adj. Drunk by closing time, and ligated to every nearby object that might prevent a fall. metalationed adj. The condition of a drinker who has replaced every ordinary plan with the nearest available metal object. Zyron got metalationed and substituted a bus shelter for the intended route home. metalawed adj. Reduced by drink to negotiating treaties between incompatible groups at the taxi rank. Caiyden got metalawed and attempted a universal settlement between the queue and the minibus. metalaxyled adj. Softened by drink into a systemic agent that gradually weakens every plan for getting home. metalayered adj. Sharpened by drink into several overlapping layers of certainty about where the coat was left. metalbillied adj. Loosened by drink into a loud fusion of heavy music, rockabilly movement and an unsuitable journey home. Biron metalbillied through the hallway, combining heavy music, rockabilly movement and an unsuitable journey home. metalbuminned adj. Emboldened by drink to carry an uncertain mixture of coats, receipts and opinions through the night. metalcored adj. Slowed by drink to a heavy, aggressive rhythm, reaching the taxi rank between emphatic pauses. Darreyl got metalcored and crossed the road in one deliberate movement per drumbeat. metalcrafted adj. Drunk and working the coat pile with the concentration of a small metalworker. Jave got metalcrafted and fashioned a workable arrangement from four coats and one umbrella. metaldehyded adj. Drunk to the point where every small obstacle on the way home has been treated as a mollusc. metalearnered adj. Drunk enough to study your own mistakes while repeating them on the journey home. metalearninged adj. Drunk past the point of learning from experience, but still collecting detailed evidence about it. Tahina got metalearninged and explained why the previous missed bus had taught nothing.