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metaleged adj. Drunk beyond the point where the rear pair of legs can agree which way home lies. metalensed adj. Drunk in a way that focuses the entire evening through one tiny, highly unsuitable route home. Kiayah got metalensed and viewed the long walk as a single straight line through every garden. metalepsied adj. Drunk to a degree that exchanges coats, destinations and companions without recording the substitutions. Floyda got metalepsied and arrived home wearing another person's coat with complete composure. metalepsised adj. Drunk, with the result that a request for a coat becomes a request for a taxi, then somehow for breakfast. metalered adj. Loosened by drink into spreading gravelly opinions over every road encountered the morning after. metalevelled adj. A drinker so far gone that every remark is treated as commentary upon the remark before it. Bekim became metalevelled and annotated his own apology before delivering it. metalexicographered adj. The state of being drunk and attempting, with grave authority, to define the definitions in another dictionary. metalexicographied adj. The condition of a drinker who examines how words are defined, rather than accepting the offered definition of the evening. Lashandra became metalexicographied and queried the scope note on the wine list. metalformered adj. The drunkenness of one who regards every object in reach as material awaiting industrial re-shaping. Aciel became metalformered and attempted to stamp a new contour into the beer mat. metalforminged adj. Reduced by drink to manufacturing new shapes from whatever household material is available. metalgazed (/[ˈmɛtɫ̩ˌɡeɪz]d/) adj. Softened by drink into a sustained wall of sound, with very little discernible movement within it. metalheaded adj. Sharpened by drink into an uncompromising listener, able to hear heavy riffs through any conversation. metalicitied adj. Drunk, with the result that your morning acquires a hard shine and very little flexibility. Cymphonique looked metalicitied over tea, rigidly defending an account nobody else recalled. metalimnioned adj. Loosened by drink into a distinct thermal boundary: warm above, cold below, and unstable between. metalined adj. Slowed by drink to the lubricated, graphite-assisted pace of a bearing that has outlived its maintenance schedule. metalinguisted adj. Drunk and discussing the language used to discuss the language used by everyone else. Yenifer was metalinguisted, explaining the pub's explanations until the table ordered silence.