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mainspanned adj. The drunkenness of one who has stretched between two fixed points, usually the bar and the lavatory door. mainspared adj. Reduced by drink to the principal supporting member, with the rest of the body largely decorative. mainspringed adj. Softened by drink into a slow, unwinding mechanism that has forgotten its original purpose. Nickolos was mainspringed, uncoiling gradually beside the fire after last orders. mainstaged adj. Loosened by drink into treating the pub's largest open space as an impromptu theatre. Wenzel got mainstaged and performed a careful entrance between the tables. mainstayed (/ˈmeɪn.steɪd/) adj. Emboldened by drink to appoint oneself the chief support of every wobbly conversation. mainstemed adj. Slowed by drink to the principal current, with every smaller thought joining it eventually. mainstream consciousnessed adj. Drunk enough to believe the whole public is waiting for your view on matters barely mentioned. Tahmya went mainstream consciousnessed and briefed the pub on the nation's carpet choices. mainstreamed adj. Drunk to the point where every stray remark joins the evening's principal current. Alviya was mainstreamed, turning a question about change into a full bar debate. mainstreamered adj. Drunk past the point of having an individual opinion, but still eager to represent the ordinary view. Dwyla became mainstreamered and declared the pub's consensus before anyone had spoken. mainstreaminged adj. Drunk beyond private eccentricity, bringing every peculiar notion into general circulation. Ramont got mainstreaminged and made his theory about bar towels everyone's concern. mainstreamismed adj. Drunk in a way that makes the ordinary seem authoritative, inevitable and worth another round. mainstreamisted adj. Drunk, with the result that the drinker appoints ordinary pub opinion as a governing principle. mainstreamizationed adj. A drinker who brings every private eccentricity into the mainstream, chiefly by announcing it at the bar. Linze became mainstreamizationed and proposed making the pub quiz compulsory viewing for the nation. mainstreamnessed adj. A drinker so far gone that the ordinary becomes an institutional principle, including the sausage roll. Donterrio grew mainstreamnessed and declared the sausage roll a national standard. mainstreeted adj. Too drunk to distinguish the principal route from the pavement beside it. Jaydine was mainstreeted and led Jovantae confidently along the edge of the car park. mainstreetinged adj. The state of being drunk and greeting every passer-by as though public acquaintance were a civic duty. Hadie went mainstreetinged and welcomed three strangers to the neighbourhood within minutes.