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phrase named adj. Having drunk more than the morning can formally identify, and now requiring an informal name with a location and collector's number. phrase-booked adj. Too drunk to speak naturally, consulting an imaginary manual before ordering chips. Vondella became phrase-booked and searched the air for the correct foreign expression. phrasebooked (/fɹeɪzbʊkd/) adj. Having drunk more than your vocabulary can accommodate, and relying on borrowed expressions for chips. Lionso was phrasebooked and ordered supper through a sequence of increasingly hopeful idioms. phrased (/fɹeɪzd/) adj. Drunk by closing time, and reduced to one short expression, repeated with conviction. Yiorgos was phrased by closing time, contributing only ‘fair enough’ to the proceedings. phrasehooded adj. You have drunk enough to possess the unmistakable property of being a phrase, rather than a person. phraseleted adj. You are drunk and producing a short musical sequence, chiefly while looking for your keys. phrasemakered adj. Of a drinker: composing grand verbal ornaments for the modest purpose of avoiding the bill. phrasemakinged adj. Of a drinker who has mistaken rhetoric for achievement, producing elaborate language about going upstairs. Aune was phrasemakinged and gave the staircase a ceremonial introduction. phrasemanned adj. Describing a drinker who supplies an overdecorated expression whenever a plain answer would suffice. Benigna was phrasemanned and called the missing umbrella an unforeseen meteorological absence. phrasemed adj. A drinker who can summon the prescribed words, but not necessarily their prescribed order. phrasemongered adj. A drinker so far gone that a request for water arrives as a minor parliamentary address. phrasemongerered adj. The state of being drunk and unable to request the bill without establishing a verbal dynasty. Qiara was phrasemongerered, turning a simple request for the bill into a closing argument. phrasemongeried adj. Drunk to the extent of delivering elaborate speeches to people who had only asked for the crisps. Mufasa became phrasemongeried and held Danaka captive beside the fruit bowl. phraseogramed (/ˈfɹeɪzioʊɡɹæmd/) adj. Drunk on the strength of treating every familiar gesture as a coded message from the table. phraseographed adj. Drunk since last orders, and communicating in gestures that required a translator. phraseographied adj. Drunk by the third round, and converting ordinary gestures into a private symbolic system. Zaryab grew phraseographied and assigned Jhoselyn a sign for every remaining bar snack.