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operating expenditured adj. Reduced by drink to treating the final round, the taxi and the coat deposit as one expense. operating expensed adj. Softened by drink into an ongoing cost, carried quietly from the bar to the front door. operating lossed adj. Too drunk to produce income, or indeed to operate anything requiring supervision. Gullermo became operating lossed before the restaurant had finished taking orders. operating room tabled adj. Having drunk more than a patient can reasonably be expected to withstand before being laid out for maintenance. operating roomed adj. Sufficiently drunk to require a sterile environment, several observers and a consent form. operating systemed (/ˈɒpəˌɹeɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəmd/) adj. You are drunk and allocating each remaining bodily resource to the least urgent available task. operating tabled adj. Of a drinker: laid out flat, awaiting intervention from persons with clearer faculties. Tegon became operating tabled shortly after declaring the carpet structurally unsound. operating theatred adj. Of a drinker who has acquired an audience, a patient, and no defensible procedure. Mits went operating theatred and performed a lengthy examination of the coat stand. operating timed adj. Describing a drinker who measures the evening from input to eventual, imperfect completion. operating-room tabled adj. You have drunk enough to lie still while everyone else determines whether you are recoverable. operating-roomed adj. Having drunk enough to regard ordinary conversation as a procedure requiring a surgical team. operatinged (/ˈɒpəɹeɪtɪŋd/) adj. Describing a drinker who continues the evening's procedures long after their purpose has disappeared. operation of lawed adj. The state of being drunk and subject to consequences arising automatically, without further application. Tiffanyamber became operation of lawed when the final round produced an immediate need for transport. operational analysised adj. The condition of a drinker who subjects every route home to a formal optimisation exercise. Catalino got operational analysised and rejected three taxis on grounds of strategic inefficiency. operational calculused adj. The drunkenness of one who differentiates every intention and integrates none of its consequences. Arric became operational calculused and attempted to solve the bill by operators. operational definitioned adj. Reduced by drink to whatever observable procedure establishes that you are present and quantifiably unsteady. Aren got operational definitioned by the barman, who tested his ability to locate the door.