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number 2 pencilled adj. Drunk by the third round, and marking the kitchen with a dark, official-looking trail of decisions. Kristiaan got number 2 pencilled and recorded the water glass on the back of an electricity bill. number 2'd adj. Of a drinker: reduced to counting the rounds, and liable to count the same one twice. number closed (/ˈnʌmbə(ɹ)ˌkləʊzd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and treating a telephone number obtained at the pub as a household matter. Majda went number closed and saved the new contact beside instructions for finding the clean towels. number codinged adj. Drunk, with the result that access to the correct street depends on the last digit of your registration plate. number crunchered adj. Still drunk, and calculating household quantities professionally while ignoring the unpaid dishes. number crunchinged adj. A drinker who performs extensive arithmetic on the bill, particularly when the figures favour another round. Angeli got number crunchinged and recalculated the shared tab beneath the optics. number densitied adj. Too drunk to stand, but still estimating the concentration of people and crockery per square metre. Sochi became number densitied and complained that the sofa contained an excessive population of cushions. number eighted adj. Sufficiently drunk to control the sofa scrum, collect the ball of conversation and release it towards the kitchen. number elevened adj. Having drunk enough to bat last in the kitchen, usually after everyone else has abandoned the washing-up. Fergus became number elevened and faced the remaining plates when the household had retired. number fielded adj. Having drunk more than enough to turn the living room into an algebraic field of cushions and glasses. Dorothie went number fielded and treated the sofa, rug and water glass as elements of one system. number fived adj. You have drunk enough to bat fifth in the household, arriving at the sofa after four unsuccessful attempts to make tea. number foured adj. You are drunk and batting fourth at the kitchen, expected to produce something useful before retreating to the sofa. number gamed adj. Drunk enough to turn the pub quiz into a contest whose rules change whenever you are losing. number homophoned adj. Drunk past the point of saying figures aloud when a shorter, entirely different word will do. number lined adj. Drunk beyond arranging every lost thought along a straight scale from sensible to catastrophic. Hilliard number lined his lost thoughts from sensible to catastrophic along the bar. number needed to harmed adj. Drunk in a way that makes one adverse consequence among several seem a reasonable statistical outcome. Addia became number needed to harmed after offering the landlord a sample of every hot sauce behind the bar.