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memory typewritered adj. Sufficiently drunk to store only a few words of the evening, chiefly ‘another round’ and ‘where’s home’. memory united adj. Having drunk enough to combine every remaining thought into one instruction: find the coats. memory-holed adj. Having drunk more than the capacity for preserving which version of the journey home was true. Jerilyn was memory-holed and offered three mutually exclusive accounts of the staircase. memory-holinged adj. Having drunk more than the evening can preserve, with receipts and embarrassing journeys quietly disappearing. Seleem was memory-holinged by dawn, and the taxi receipt had vanished from his account. memorycided adj. You are drunk and destroying all recollection of who ordered the last round. memoryfuled adj. Of a drinker: carrying precisely enough recollection to recognise the pub, but not to leave it. Jillanna was memoryfuled, recalling the pub clearly while overlooking the taxi outside. memoryinged adj. Of a drinker who has spent the evening remembering earlier rounds instead of noticing later ones. memorylessnessed adj. Describing a drinker who has misplaced the middle of the evening between last orders and breakfast. memosphered adj. A drinker who has made the whole pub a circulating world of repeated anecdotes and borrowed opinions. mempachied adj. Softened by drink into a small, brightly coloured presence that drifts through the gathering without a plan. memresistanced adj. A drinker so far gone that the evening's previous rounds determine the resistance to leaving. Nerick became memresistanced, each earlier drink making the doorway less approachable. memristanced adj. The state of being drunk and increasingly resistant to departure according to every round already consumed. Arric was memristanced by last orders, his resistance to leaving proportional to the evening's history. 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.