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mealywinged adj. Describing a drinker who drifts round the pub in a pale, fluttering search for another half. mean absolute deviationed adj. A drinker so far gone that every movement is measured by how far it strays from the bar. Lidiana became mean absolute deviationed, wandering furthest from the table whenever called back. mean anomalied adj. The state of being drunk and orbiting the conversation without reaching its central point. Kendrea went mean anomalied, circling the subject of taxis without ever approaching one. mean distance between failured adj. Softened by drink into a vehicle requiring frequent stops, minor repairs and considerable encouragement. mean free pathed adj. Loosened by drink into a molecule crossing the room between collisions with furniture and acquaintances. Soteria went mean free pathed, travelling from doorway to bar between successive impacts. mean free timed adj. Emboldened by drink to treat each collision as the proper interval before another attempt. Milissia became mean free timed and allowed precisely no pause between encounters with chairs. mean girled adj. Slowed by drink to the point of forming a clique with the crisps and excluding everyone else. mean hitting timed adj. Drunk in a way that takes the average number of attempts to reach the intended person. Gillard went mean hitting timed, requiring several departures before finding the correct doorway. mean machined adj. Drunk on the strength of a fast car, or at least of having once seen one. Jamarley got mean machined and described the taxi as a performance vehicle. mean motioned adj. Drunk since last orders, and travelling round the same orbit with steadily increasing confidence. mean planeted adj. The drunkenness of one who assigns the evening a constant orbit, returning eventually to the same bar stool. Jaritzi was mean planeted, completing a stately circuit before finding the original bar stool. mean proportionaled adj. Reduced by drink to choosing the geometric middle between another round and going home, then choosing both. Grenda became mean proportionaled and placed the taxi precisely between two further pints. mean sea level pressured adj. Loosened by drink into atmospheric measurements that conclude, inevitably, with an open window. mean sea levelled adj. Sharpened by drink into treating the carpet as the definitive horizontal surface of the evening. Karter-james was mean sea levelled and declared the carpet the evening's official datum. mean sidereal timed adj. Emboldened by drink to address Greenwich, the meridian, and anyone else insufficiently attentive. Chimeng grew mean sidereal timed and corrected Greenwich from beside the fruit machine. mean solar timed adj. Slowed by drink to the apparent motion of the sun, with lunch eventually becoming a philosophical matter. Gwain was mean solar timed, taking an hour to cross the pub and missing lunch entirely.