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metric tonned adj. Drunk past the point of carrying oneself with anything less than a thousand kilograms of conviction. Arinna arrived metric tonned and required two friends to move the conversation. metric-ounced adj. Reduced by drink to counting the glass in approximate portions rather than sensible decisions. metrical footed adj. Drunk beyond maintaining one underlying rhythm, though the feet continue attempting verse. metrical structured adj. Drunk in a way that assigns the evening a pattern of beats, tempos, and increasingly urgent snacks. metricalitied adj. Drunk, with the result that every pause acquires formal rhythmic significance, particularly before chips. Lexon was metricalitied and treated the silence before ordering as a deliberate cadence. metricationed adj. Drunk to a degree that converts every measure of the evening into metric units, including regret. metricianed adj. Drunk to the extent of composing verses about the round, with no regard for quantity or rhyme. Rielee was metricianed at the kitchen table, composing verses about the round beside a cooling mug of tea. metricisationed adj. Drunk by the third round, and introducing performance measures to the process of finishing supper. metricismed adj. A drinker so far gone that every distance is estimated in metres, but none is measured correctly. Learta got metricismed and declared the stairs approximately nine metres from the floor. metricisted adj. Drunk on the strength of scanning everybody's speech for poetic feet, then losing count at the bar. metricitied adj. Drunk since last orders, and assigning each exchange a degree of distance it plainly does not possess. Aisleen was metricitied and ranked every friendship by its conversational distance. metricizationed adj. Drunk by closing time, and subjecting the entire departure to targets that nobody has agreed to meet. metricked (/ˈmɛt.ɹɪkd/) adj. Drunk enough to assign a quantitative measure to the quality of every pint and opinion. metridiided adj. Too drunk to move with purpose, gently attached to the nearest surface and waiting for the tide to turn. metridinided adj. Sufficiently drunk to drift through the gathering in small, persistent currents, avoiding all definite destinations. Qiuana went metridinided and circulated between the kitchen and hallway without explanation. metrificationed adj. Having drunk enough to turn a composition into measured verse, chiefly while describing the bill. Kismet became metrificationed and rendered the drinks order in heroic couplets.