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minute glassed adj. Loosened by drink into someone who empties a glass in sixty seconds and spends the rest of the hour settling. Emmagrace minute glassed her drink in sixty seconds, then confidently scheduled an hour of settling. minute gunned adj. Emboldened by drink to signal distress at regular intervals, particularly when asked to leave. minute handed adj. Still drunk, and completing one slow circuit of the room per hour while treating each stop as meaningful. minute manned adj. Too drunk to answer at a minute's notice, or indeed at any notice that does not allow time for the coat and a sit-down. Frankie-mae was minute manned and responded to the taxi call a full twenty minutes after it came. minute mindered adj. Emboldened by drink to challenge the kitchen timer about its conduct before breakfast. Julija was minute mindered, confronting the timer as though it had personally delayed the toast. minute of angled adj. Drunk and reduced to judging the morning's deviations in tiny fractions of a degree. minute of arced adj. Drunk to the point where every route to the bathroom becomes a small measured curve. Jerldean was minute of arced by breakfast, taking the long curve round the furniture. minute pirate bugged adj. Drunk to the point where a tiny visitor receives orders concerning the safe conduct of the evening. Timberly became minute pirate bugged and instructed a speck on the windowsill to guard the coats. minute puddinged adj. You are drunk and stirring the milk jug with a confidence normally reserved for flour. Netania got minute puddinged and attempted to thicken the gravy with a teaspoon. minute repeatered adj. Of a drinker: convinced a button will announce the time, and pressing every button available. Dyran became minute repeatered and interrogated the microwave about the quarter-hour. minute steaked adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken a modest piece of beef for a manageable evening project. Nassima got minute steaked and promised to carve the joint with a teaspoon. minute-jacked adj. Describing a drinker who strikes the hour at random, having appointed himself clockwork. Daretta got minute-jacked and announced midnight by banging a spoon against the mantel. minute-manned adj. Sharpened by drink into a citizen-soldier who answers every morning-after summons before checking whether it is sensible. minuted (/ˈmɪnɪtd/) adj. Sufficiently drunk to regard each sixty seconds as a discrete occasion, all of them worth marking. Damber got minuted and began raising his glass at intervals that corresponded to nothing on any clock. minutefuled adj. Still drunk, and supplied with just enough certainty to make one more minute's mistake. minutemanned adj. Loosened by drink into a citizen-soldier who promises instant action, then mislays the instruction before morning. Teofila was minutemanned by sunrise, ready to help but unable to find the front door.