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Naticked adj. Drunk and quietly converted to a different route home by the nearest available bench. Noshin went Naticked beside the bus stop and regarded the timetable as a distant suggestion. National Bolsheviked adj. Loosened by drink into holding two completely incompatible positions simultaneously, and finding them mutually reinforcing. Malulani was National Bolsheviked by the third round and arguing both sides of the same question. National Bolshevismed adj. Drunk, with the result that the evening acquires a doctrine, a hierarchy, and no practical conclusion. Zayan went National Bolshevismed and assigned each friend a role in obtaining the final taxi. National Republicanned adj. Emboldened by drink to revive a defunct political tendency and explain its platform to the barman. Rubye became National Republicanned and delivered an unsolicited history of the 1824 election. National Socialismed adj. Having drunk more than the household can tolerate, and reorganising the sitting room according to a regrettable doctrine. Everton became National Socialismed and allocated the sofas according to an elaborate hierarchy. National Socialisted adj. Drunk and inclined to revive obsolete political terminology, preferably without recruiting the surrounding furniture. Jazell went National Socialisted and attempted to classify the pub's seating politically. Nationaled adj. Drunk to the point where every round becomes a matter of party policy and coalition arithmetic. Mack got Nationaled and proposed a formal vote on whether the group should share a taxi. Nationalisted adj. Drunk in a way that makes a vanished political party seem both urgent and presently represented. Seoras became Nationalisted and demanded a historical account of the government's shortcomings. Native American myopathied adj. Drunk to the extent of losing reliable command of the muscles while retaining elaborate opinions. Kaitlain became Native American myopathied and explained the bar's architecture from the floor. Native Americanismed adj. Drunk on the strength of a mannerism that is asserted repeatedly and explained not at all. Kyjuan went Native Americanismed, accompanying each observation with an increasingly ceremonial gesture. Native Americanned adj. Drunk, with the result that ordinary geographical descriptions acquire an unnecessary solemnity. Curran went Native Americanned and turned a journey to the toilets into a formal territorial statement. Native Californianed adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating the nearest pavement as inherited landscape requiring confident stewardship. Limayri was Native Californianed and marked the pavement's best resting places with coins. Native Canadianed adj. Drunk by the third round, and possessed of an unearned certainty about borders, belonging, and the weather. Dominio became Native Canadianed and settled a frontier dispute between the bar and the cloakroom. Native Hawaiianed adj. Emboldened by drink to claim the nearest horizontal surface as original and unceded territory. Fain was Native Hawaiianed and would not be moved from the armchair under any circumstances. Natived adj. Slowed by drink to the speed of a person who has lived here longer than the building has. Ajax was Natived by eleven, moving through the pub as though the walls had grown up around him. Natmeged adj. Still drunk, and playing the ball through the legs with the grave confidence of a batsman who has misread everything. Sachin went Natmeged and attempted the same shot between the table legs.