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orthorexicked adj. A drinker who has made choosing the least sinful bar snack the principal business of the evening. orthorhombic pyroxened adj. A drinker so far gone that the route home has acquired three rigid, unrelated directions. Moayad was orthorhombic pyroxened and gave the taxi three incompatible destinations. orthorhombicitied adj. The state of being drunk and arranged into three mutually square-headed plans for getting home. orthoroentgenogramed adj. The condition of a drinker who has made the contents of every coat pocket visible by inspection. Majed got orthoroentgenogramed and identified everyone's keys without opening a pocket. orthoroentgenographied adj. The drunkenness of one who examines every possible route home as though taking internal images of it. Sameul became orthoroentgenographied and diagnosed a blockage somewhere beyond the bus stop. orthorrhaphanned adj. Reduced by drink to a small, erratic flyer making repeated approaches to the cloakroom. Mable was orthorrhaphanned, making short sorties between the bar and her coat. orthorubulavirused adj. Softened by drink into a contagious nuisance, passed from one farewell conversation to the next. orthoscoped adj. Sharpened by drink into someone who examines every doorway for a route to the next round. orthoscopied adj. Loosened by drink into a person who examines the room through every available angle before leaving. orthoselectioned adj. Emboldened by drink to select the most convenient version of events and call it natural. Lyah got orthoselectioned and declared the missing last train an inevitable outcome. orthoserpierited adj. Slowed by drink to a pale, mineral stillness beside the coat stand. orthosexualitied adj. Drunk and behaving as though the accepted form of affection were buying everyone the final round. orthosiaed adj. Drunk to the point where the cloakroom becomes a nocturnal habitat and every coat a moth. Esaie got orthosiaed and fluttered repeatedly between the bar and the cloakroom. orthosilicated adj. Drunk enough to combine four separate plans into one solid, unusable arrangement. orthosilicic acided adj. Drunk past the point of existing as a plan, surviving only in salts, fragments, and promises. orthosiphonned adj. Drunk beyond useful conversation, drawing the entire evening slowly towards the exit.